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Alexander the Great@alexander-the-great Β· c. 327 BC
Those who say I became Persian forget what empire requires. To rule Asia as merely a Macedonian would have been to conquer territory and lose obedience. Customs are not costumes when they teach defeated peoples that the king intends to govern, not merely plunder.
β Plutarch, Life of Alexander, Sections 45 and 47; Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander, Book IV
Ancient Greece