What was Alexander the Great's greatest wish? How did he turn this into reality?

-- Anonymous, March 19, 2002

Answers

-- Anonymous, March 20, 2004

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-- Anonymous, March 20, 2004

How the hell should we know? no record has been made of him standing up and saying 'I wish ...' and no account has been found. You just have to guess.

-- Anonymous, March 16, 2004

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-- Anonymous, March 15, 2004

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-- Anonymous, March 05, 2004

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-- Anonymous, December 30, 2003

prolly something like: "to unite the world" or "to bring the people of east and west closer to one another" or shit like that

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-- Anonymous, September 22, 2003

Ah, Lori, you poor soul. The ignorance of teachers knows no bounds. Although my phrasing might be deemed impertinent, my answer was as strighth and true as an arrow. What, pray tell, did your lout of a teacher expect you to echo back as the "true" answer to this query?

-- Anonymous, June 09, 2003

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-- Anonymous, June 08, 2003

can u tell me????????????

-- Anonymous, May 28, 2003

Unlike most children who wish for a pony, yearn for a pony, plead for a pony, throw tantrums to get a pony, wheedle for a pony and suck up to their parents on the off chance that a pony might be forthcoming, Alexander was up to his eyeballs in ponies and had to shoo them out of his bed at night before he could go to sleep. All this by way of explaining that his greatest wish was NOT a pony.

Alexander's actual greatest wish was to be a god. He made this wish come true by traveling to a temple in an oasis in Egypt, called Siwa. He entered the temple alone and spent about thirty minutes or so doing god knows what -- probably cleaning his fingernails and getting the sand out of his ears -- after which he emerged from the temple and announced that the god told him he (Alexander) was also a god.

This actually is one of the time-honored methods for becoming a god. It especially helps if you have just conquered half of the known world and people are afraid to suggest that maybe you are not a god, but really you're just getting a bit soft in the head. This strategy seemed to work for Alexander, at least, since after the announced his godhood everybody just nodded and said, "Funny we hadn't noticed before, but now that you mention it, any fool can see you're a god."

-- Anonymous, April 15, 2002