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Alexander the Great Why Alexander was truly 'great'

Dictionaries have since provided evidence as valued source for definition of the word great, it therefore defined great as getting powerful, superior or character in terms of quality, eminent as well as noble. It is true to say that Alexander was powerful as well as very eminent not failing to mention the large empire he managed to build. As the saying goes that every all that glitters is not gold so was Alexander. Despite the fact that Alexander managed to achieve all that he did he could not be fit the definition of the word Great on the grounds of humanity.

I do not think that a great person can always be pushing his people into situations (war) for his personal ambitions and gain. For the reasons of bad a temper, I don't think one who is known to be great should mastermind the killing of tens of thousands of his people. Neither do I think that great people should take away their friend's lives for a reason or another. If this truly befits...

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Going back to the dictionary description of the word great, it is beyond no reasonable doubt that Alexander never befitted the definition of the word great; instead he was a ruthless greedy fellow who was determined to nourish his desires to develop into more powerful man. Truly in his times he was among the powerful men of all times but at the expense of his own people. They say that responsibility accompanies power everywhere but for Alexander, he did neglected responsibility and instead of taking good care of his empire, he opted for continuous wars outside his empire for the purpose of enlarging it.
According to A.B. Bosworth (1986), Alexander became the greatest conqueror in just thirteen years as he managed to gather together the leading empire in the whole prehistoric world. The empire that Alexander managed to put together could cover as wide as 3,000 miles. It is proper to note that he did all this minus the assistance of the…

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A.B. Bosworth, 'Alexander the Great and the Decline of Macedon', JHS 106 (1986). Retrieved on 16/10/2013 http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2004/2004-01-31.html

N.G.L. Hammond, 'The Macedonian Imprint on the Hellenistic World', in Hellenistic History and Culture, ed. P. Green (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1993). Retrieved on 16/10/2013 http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft0000035f;chunk.id=0;doc.view=print
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