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I recently learned that everything we know about Alexander the Great comes from ~5 accounts written by people who lived hundreds of years after Alexander died:
by choxi 4y ago
I recently learned that everything we know about Alexander the Great comes from ~5 accounts written by people who lived hundreds of years after Alexander died: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography_of_Alexander_the_Great https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography_of_Alexander_th...
- Leary 4y agohttps://www.livius.org/sources/content/oriental-varia/a-contemporary-account-of-the-battle-of-gaugamela/#:~:text=On%201%20October%20331%2C%20the,of%20the%20Esagila%20temple%20complex https://www.livius.org/sources/content/oriental-varia/a-cont....