o limit; elsewhere in Asia, Alexander was considered a feared autocrat but not a fearful god; and, as Pharaoh in Egypt, he was viewed as both, all knowing and all powerful.
In all of this, Alexander was the juggernaut of war รป and war (as Heraclitus of Ephesus defined it somewhere around 500 BCE) "is the father of all, king of all. Some it makes gods, some it makes men, some it makes slaves, some free" (The Big View). Further, Alexander's persona evolved in a social climate
where, according to Cartledge, war defined the political rights and responsibilities of citizens, assigned th
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