Alexander

Quotes

• “What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse better than others do.”
• “Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?”
• “Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions.”
• “If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.”
• “Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have been appointed leader of the Greeks, and wanting to punish the Persians I have come to Asia, which I took from you.”
• “So would I, if I were Parmenion.”

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Key facts

Reign

11 May 912 – 6 June 913

Coronation

c. September 879

Predecessor

Leo VI

Successor

Constantine VII

Born

23 November 870 , Constantinople , (now Istanbul , Turkey )

Died

6 June 913 (aged 42)

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Wikidata facts

Image

Alexandros mosaic Hagia Sophia.JPG

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