To the wonderfull person aimless...(A Question)

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Aimless... Thankyou for anwering allmost all the questions on this site... in your honour I have made my E-Mail adress:GoAimless@msn.com I have a hard question for you (or anyone else that wants to answer) When Alexander was a child did he want to be a general? Thank you for reading this Aimless... I hope you answer (or anyone else for that matter...) I hope you continue with your (Great) Answering skills. Thanks and goodbye...

-- Anonymous, December 07, 2003

Answers

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-- Anonymous, June 12, 2004

He always had that lust for battle. He took his manhood test far too early and when he fell out with his father and took part in his first battle I guess he really wanted to be a general.

-- Anonymous, March 12, 2004

(: (: (: (: Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-- Anonymous, December 11, 2003

What Sikander said. To which I would add:

Alexander was born a prince and destined to be a king. In Makedon a king was also a general, in a much more real sense than a US president is the Commander-In-Chief, since the king would lead his troops into battle and lived much of his life in a military camp among soldiers.

From early childhood onward, Alexander would have been taught military skills and given every possible reward and inducement to excel at them. The fact that he so whole-heartedly embraced the life of a king and a general is (to my mind) incontrovertible evidence that he took to the role like a duck to water and relished it from an early age. You cannot excel at something to the degree he did and not love it.

-- Anonymous, December 09, 2003


Greetings,

Not Aimless, but I can answer some of this. Alexander was one of the sons of King Philip II of Makedon. As such, and as the most promising, Alexander was raised to rule- his education with Aristotle, inherent intelligence, physical training in a warrior-based culture and the overall culture at the time in Makledon and the Greek city-states, as well as outlying regions such as Illyria, etc would have clearly trained him for monarchy and ambition. In a warrior culture, the leader must surpass others in his ability to fight and win; Alexander excelled in this. If you read Arrian, Curtius, Plutarch etc you will get an overall feel for the head-set of Alexander- there are many good translations of these texts available.

Regards, Sikander

-- Anonymous, December 09, 2003



O please answer soon friend... i need some info.

-- Anonymous, December 08, 2003

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