Alexander the Paranoid?

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Edited by medenaywe - 28-Oct-2016 at 00:06

Many Roman emperors were paranoid.

AS, I'm curious, your join date is 2006, same year I joined. Yet you never posted until now. Why?

Alexander certainly did seem to be a megalomaniac..

His successes are undoubtedly due to the ability of his troops
to back up his flaming self-confidence, but he essentially betrayed them
when they called enough - on his overweening ambition..

The cruel desert death march he inflicted on his home-bound veterans was truly despicable, & I wonder if 100 years ago the Ottomans thought the same would do - as a way of dealing a final solution to their perceived Armenian 'problem', like-wise..


Those tough, practical Greek/Macedonians thought Alexander's take-up of the corrupt Eastern potentate/self-styled living-deity role was going too far hubris-wise, & very probably poisoned him,(to preserve his legend), rather than do to him what Caligula later got from his mob, when they'd had enough..

Saying Alexander wasn't a good general is... I don't know what that is... He was, he was also very brave. As for his paranoia, you can't blame the guy, I would be to in his place. 

"Huh" what?

I was merely observing that, given how many of his predecessors had met violent ends of one sort or another, Alexander may have had more than most to be paranoid about.

As the saying goes, the fact that you're paranoid doesn't mean that nobody's out to get you.

Originally posted by Mikestone8 Iirc he was the first King of Macedon in a century to die in bed. If so, maybe paranoid isn't such a bad thing to be.

Mmmmmmmm,I think I agree, if you become paranoid now, you might want to become paranoid, and become paranoid, in your bed.

I'm not so sure that executions were seen to be extraordinary in Alexander's time. 

Originally posted by Delenda est Roma It might've been that he had a character judgement problem. Many of his satraps were unreliable. He probably would've accomplished more with trusted subordinates. Think of what he could've done with subordinates on par with Napoleon's marshals!

Why charater judgement problems? He picked from what he had, if there weren't more reliable people available, what he could do? As for his executions, some of them were under the influence...

It might've been that he had a character judgement problem. Many of his satraps were unreliable. He probably would've accomplished more with trusted subordinates. Think of what he could've done with subordinates on par with Napoleon's marshals!