Theos-Talk Archives (April 1996 Message tl01231)

At 06:37 PM 4/26/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Alex,
>The problem with Alexander was that he ended up believing his own press
>releases and ultimately got his own troops mad at him, forcing him to do
>stupid things like try to single-handedly take a city and take an arrow
>instead (the wound that ultimately killed him).
>Just think of what the world might have been like if he had a little more
>humility and a lot longer life.
>
>Chuck the Barbarian MTI, FTSA MGof5
>Heretic
>Troublemaker
>
>Chuck:

Where did you get that? What killed Alexander was the death of Hephaistion,
his lover, who was poisoned by Alexander's Circassian Wife,Roxanne.
Alexander went on a binge, caught pneumonia, went swimming in the Euphrates,
drank the water and died of the pneumonia and typhus. With Hephaistion gone
he just didn't want to live. Remember Alexander was a "bottom". He refused
to name a successor because he blamed everyone around him for Hephaistion's
death. Also, by the time Alexander died, there weren't any cities left for
him to take.

alexis MTI., FTSA.the eclectic theosophist
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