> It’s such a shame there is virtually nothing surviving from people who personally knew Alexander. To me it's also just incredible how short his life was, and

> It’s such a shame there is virtually nothing surviving from people who personally knew Alexander. To me it's also just incredible how short his life was, and I imagine that contributes to how scarce first-hand accounts are. He started taking part in military campaigns at 16, became king at 20, and was dead by 32. The Wikipedia article about him mentions he had a historian (or more than one); it's a shame none of those accounts survived to today. Sure, life expectancy back then was not what it was today, but he was still fairly young, and did a remarkable amount of conquering and expansion in a decade.