Alexander the Great

>>2259430
That we really know anything about him. Plutarch and Arrian might be decent historians (or, well, Plutarch was a decent storyteller), but they wrote so many centuries after he lived that he is shrouded in uncertainty

>>2259444
And what of the men of letters, scribes, etc. whom he surrounded himself with? I feel like that would've allowed us more insight into him.

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was he really a great commander or it was because Darius was a moron?

On the other hand, this song is pretty rad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oTEQf1d9Iw

>>2259856
> What do most seem to misunderstand about him?

He learned to fight on a saddle in Greece and the Balkans.

Alexander was already a seasoned veteran before he set foot on Asian soil.

>>2259448
A number of the diadochi penned memoirs about Alexander. That's what makes the sources who wrote centuries somewhat credible.
Ptolemy I Soter's was the most famous one, and his was used by Arrian extensively, though the memoir was lost to the centuries.

Diodorous siculus used a parallel account from Onesicritus (a writer on Alexander's campaign) and Nearchus, the naval commander on the campaign

That's the closest we have got sadly