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If you claim your Kingdom, take your stand
and fight for it, and do not run; for
I shall make my way wherever you may be.

ALEXANDER TO KING DARIUS
(335 B.C.E.)

        The legend of Alexander still lives; the proof of his immortaliity is
     the belief he inspired in others.
    That is why he remains greater than the measurable sum of his
    works; that is why, in the last resort, he will continue to be an
     insoluble enigma, to this and all future generations.
     His greatness defies a final judgement. He personified an archetypal
     element, restless and perennial, in human nature : the Myth
     of the ethernal quest for the World's end, memorably summed up
     by Alfred Tennyson in the last line of "Ulysses" :
                 " To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield".

                      Peter Green - " AlLEXANDER OF MACEDON"

       Through Zeus Ammon, Alexander believed he was specially
     favoured by Heaven; through Homer, he had chosen the ideal
     of a Hero - Achilles - and for Homer's heroes there could not
     be turning back from the demands of honour.
     Each ideal, the divine and the heroic, pitched Alexander's life
     too high to last; each was the ideal of a Romantic.

                       Robin Lane Fox - ALEXANDER THE GREAT