Alexander the great or Alexander the lucky? (1 Viewer)

[jboyd]

I have an assesment coming up and the question is "Should it be Alexander the Great or Alexander the Lucky?"
I have plenty of info on why he was Great but none on how he was lucky.

Could somebody help me out?

 

[ari89]

Hey...U'd probably get more hits in the history forum so you should PM a mod or sum1 to move it.

Anyway, collect a series of opinions on him. If I remember correctly it was Plutarch that attributed a lot of his actions to fortune. And many medieval theologists similarly attributed it to God's provinence so in essence it wasn't his own actions but a form of luck that helped.

Ian Worthington is one of the historians who evaluates his greatness in his essay "how 'great' was alexander' and can be found online.

 

[ari89]

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