#alexander the great facts

[gemsofgreece]

Photos from the Palace of Aegae (~ 350 BC), the royal residence of Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander the Great, in Aegae, Imathia, Greece. The site can be visited after being closed for many years but it is still under reconstruction works.

Source of the mosaic close-up

Source of the rest of the photos

[crashing9against9the9walls]

Am I the only who loves the fact that Olly literally created the most subtle F U to the EBU by having the colors of the Palestinian Flag and got away with it.

Bruh, he even have a Keffiyeh-like pattern feature in the climax (although it looks more like a checker board but I think the resemblance is a bit uncanny, don't ya think?)

If you're still in doubt where Olly stands, just remember that he DID that!

[spectres-fulcrum]

I need to sleep but can confirm right off the bat the Alexander The Great docuseries was like this guy was gay and dating his best friend.

Complete with a sweet make out in the lake that Ptolomy ruined. They started perhaps aptly with the trio leaving exile after that year Alex was exiled.

(The summaries confirmed what episode was the Battle of Issus, they did the Alexander meets Darius' family scene super weirdly and pretended Darius had only a daughter and a wife when it was his wife, two daughters, son, and mom and they weren't threatening him. Alexander promised to treat them nicely. They butchered the He Too Is Alexander line. Very Weird as it's one of the big events.

I've written entire stories from Drypetis' pov so the Persian Royal family is something I I feel strongly about. )

[the-last-tsar]

"Over the centuries, the Empire has grown in size and in the number of conquered peoples. It once possessed an area equivalent to one-sixth of the globe, stretching from the Pacific to the German border, on which the sun never set and which was ruled by an autocrat Tsar who owed satisfaction only to God."

The last tsars - a brief untold history about the Romanovs | Paulo Rezzutti.

(Loose translation)

[a-literal-toaster-wtf]

thinking about how rimmer fixated on two of the queerest military men he could’ve fixated on

[kristsune]

After watching the interview of Jonny and Alex with Cypher Unlimited, I just had to make a post to capture some of the best bits. There were so many this had to be split into two posts. This first post includes such fun moments as: Head Archivist Alexander J Newall, we're cool normal people, disguised missile silo (x4), how RQ/Magnus formed, 10 year anniversary, Improv in Magnus, James Ross What Did You Say, Alex Swear Count: 1, making of possible Leitners, technically, technical, 1d20 Sanity Damage, and Jonny Is Not A Cannibal (again).

[oscartwofoxtrot]

[muppet-facts]

Muppet Fact #523

Jason Alexander and Gonzo were in the drama club together at the South Bay Regional Polytechnic Institute for the Performing and Industrial Arts Nightschool- specifically the downtown campus.

Source:

Muppets Tonight. Episode 108: Jason Alexander. June 30, 1996.

[ella390-the-potato]

Watching these two interacting is just as entertaining as Ricardo vs Wally. 😄

[information-connoisseur]

Diogenes meets Alexander The Great

[facts-that-you-will-never-need]

Alexander the Great named over 70 cities after himself

[bullshityounot]

These ancient Persian battle gloves, from circa 300 BC, were designed for war and offered flexibility on the battlefield as well as a fearsome defense to whomever wielded them.

Their precise engravings and meticulous metallurgy reveals the incredible advances mankind had achieved, even in ancient times, over the 1,300 or so years that had passed since the dawn of the Bronze Age.

The ghastly relics, which were stylistically recalled many centuries later in films like A Nightmare on Elm Street, Edward Scissorhands, and Gangs of New York, were not only capable of disemboweling a man but were beautifully crafted armored gauntlets that were used to defend the Persian Empire, although it ultimately fell to Alexander the Great in 331 BC.

I bullshit you not. [A.L. Lee]

[astrxxnxmy]

i relate to julius ceasar because i, too, would start crying and go through mid-life crises after comparing myself with other people

[spectres-fulcrum]

Now I have to jump from 1777 to ca. 333 BC cause apparently Netflix has an Alexander The Great half seriously acted/half docu series coming out Wednesday and Alexander the Great was my Thing sophomore year of high school(The trailer is EVERYTHING). They better do his relationship with Hephaestion right(queerly)

They were VERY in love and very obviously. Idk why it's a debate after anyone reads how Alexander reacted to Hephaestion's death(There's more but I can't remember atm)

We had an unit on ATG in World History and I wanted to google something in whatever documentary we were watching(I think it was Alexander and Hephaestion making an offering to Achilles and Patroclus) and it led me to finding out there was speculations Alex and Phai were queer and a thing and me just recently realizing I liked girls along with boys was really like. Obsessed.

That's me though. I find out things are queer and I get obsessed. I love non queer stuff too and get obsessed but. It's just like my new AmRev phase was ignited by the Hamilton-Laurens letters that are sus as fuck. Sus as fuck as I'm like yet to find a reasonable het explanation as to why Laurens was encouraging Hammie to find a wife as a cure for his devotion to Laurens.

Under the cut is more me unlocking more memories

Of course, I watched the 2004 Alexander, with Colin Farrell and Jared Leto. They are still my celebrity conspiracy theory of they fell in love during filming and had an on and off thing for a few years and it crashed and burned(That's a very very very long essay spanning several albums because Jared Leto is still clearly extremely fucked up by it see: Never Not Love You but also Love These Days). The Babylon balcony scene was gorgeous! And I loved the flashback to Aristotle teaching all the boys. And we at least got Princess Barsine-Stateira even if we didn't get the rest of the family. For books I think The Conqueror's Wife was my favorite as I loved writing from Drypetis' pov(Hephaestion's wife, Darius' daughter. I headcanoned Bagoas as her best friend though and they were all very poly and friends besides Roxana. I was probably too mean to Roxana looking back) and she was a narrator for that book. I remember reading it on a trip down to the German Christmas market. My teacher always splurged for coach buses so it was an extra nice bus ride read. That was senior year though, when it came out. I still had nook back then, not kindle.

I think our ATG unit coincided with state testing week which is part of why we watched a documentary because my history teacher knew we'd be frazzled and classes were all messed up with that week. not that it matters but it's also is like. Placing things.

Looking at the character list on IMDB(assuming it's legit) I'm like some of these people I need reminders but I'm also like Memnon! (There was an AlexPhai fic where Memnon kidnapped Phai and they grew fond of each other) Ptolemy! Queen Stateira! Hephaestion! And once I gave it some thought I was like X and Y were Phillip's generation and didn't Z kill Darius?

Yep. I need to do some review tomorrow though. God it's gonna feel good. Honestly the trailer was so exciting I was like Alexander! Phillip's death! Darius! Darius with Stateira! IS THAT SISYGAMBIS!?!?!?!?!? (IDK but I'm gonna freak if we get Sisygambis. What if we get precious little Ochus? Drypetis? Bagoas? Please at least give us the canon queer kiss with Bagoas)

[certifiedcoffeeaddict]

rip perdikkas' troops ig

[slusheeduck]

Call me Alexander Hamilton for the way I'm writing like TOMORROW WON'T ARRIVE, WRITE DAY AND NIGHT LIKE YOU NEED IT TO SURVIVE, HOW DO YOU WRITE EVERY SECOND YOU'RE ALIVE EVERY SECOND YOU'RE ALIVE EVERY SECOND YOU'RE ALIVE