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Alexander began his invasion of Persia by visiting the tomb of Achilles. At Troy in 334 BC, he laid a wreath for the hero of the Iliad. His friend Hephaestion honoured Patroclus, Achilles’ closest companion. Alexander called Achilles fortunate to have had Homer to tell his story. In Athena’s temple, he left his own armour and took weapons believed to have survived from the Trojan War. His guards carried them ahead of him into battle.
Giovanni Paolo Panini’s Alexander the Great at the Tomb of Achilles, c. 1718–1719. Alexander and soldiers stand beside men opening a stone coffin beneath towering ruined columns; a pyramid rises behind them. A later imaginative painting, not an archaeological reconstruction of Troy or evidence that Alexander opened Achilles’ tomb. Walters Art Museum, 37.510. CC0.

ALT Giovanni Paolo Panini’s Alexander the Great at the Tomb of Achilles, c. 1718–1719. Alexander and soldiers stand beside men opening a stone coffin beneath towering ruined columns; a pyramid rises behind them. A later imaginative painting, not an archaeological reconstruction of Troy or evidence that Alexander opened Achilles’ tomb. Walters Art Museum, 37.510. CC0.

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Napoleon was so poor as a young officer that he sometimes skipped meals just to afford books. He lived on dry bread, never went to cafés or parties, and brushed his own clothes so they would last longer. He later called those years the joys of his youth.
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"Learn from the mistakes of others, for your life will not be long enough to try everything yourself." * Plutarch (Greek Philosopher)
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Solomon Joseph Solomon Ayax y Casandra 1886 Un cuadro impresionante
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“If ye entrust your glory to me, then let our path be not hindered.” — Jason, Argonautica
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A list of reasons Alexander mogs everyone in history:
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Alexander the Great quite literally told his army: "we're going to march East and conquer everything until we reach the end of the world." In terms of mogging he mogs everyone else in history.
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german poet heinrich von kleist went insane after learning about immanuel kant’s philosophy. he cancelled all his life plans, lost faith in God, shot a woman, and then killed himself in 1811. “my sole & highest goal has vanished, now i have none,” he wrote after discovering kant.
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Alexander had been dead for more than twenty years when this coin was struck. His former bodyguard Lysimachus was now a king. He put Alexander’s face on one side, and his own name on the other.
Alexander’s head in right profile on a silver tetradrachm issued under Lysimachus, 297–281 BC. He wears a diadem and a ram’s horn curls above his ear. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.984.a. CC0. This coin was made after Alexander’s death.

ALT Alexander’s head in right profile on a silver tetradrachm issued under Lysimachus, 297–281 BC. He wears a diadem and a ram’s horn curls above his ear. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.984.a. CC0. This coin was made after Alexander’s death.

Reverse of the same silver tetradrachm, showing Athena seated with a small winged Nike in her hand and a shield beside her. The Greek inscription names King Lysimachus. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.984.b. CC0.

ALT Reverse of the same silver tetradrachm, showing Athena seated with a small winged Nike in her hand and a shield beside her. The Greek inscription names King Lysimachus. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.984.b. CC0.

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“Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.” – Homer, Iliad
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"There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for." — J. R. R. Tolkien
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"Come, you sons of unconquered Heracles! Zeus isn't yet among your enemies." — Tyrtaeus
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A small Roman field army and a Germanic war party
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Did you know that the emperor Nero used to go about Rome at night undercover and with some companions, robbing and beating Romans? When he attacked the senator Julius Montanus and his wife, the senator fought back until recognising Nero and begging for forgiveness. Nero forced him to commit suicide
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Priam at the Feet of Achilles (1876), by Joseph Wencker
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Gm frens👹🥖 “The French people loved me more than any king they ever had , because I came from them, not above them.” Napoleon Bonaparte
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Contemporary anxiety functions as operational capital within the digital ecosystem; data economies and platform capital feed upon continuous user tension, making neurological exhaustion a driving force for production and consumption.
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Romano Floriani Mussolini, the great-grandson of Italian WWII leader Benito Mussolini, scored his first goal for Lazio in the Serie A
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Italian actors recreating Caravaggio paintings. #HappyTuesday 🧙🧹
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Andrómaca y Pirro Charles Antoine Coypel Tragedia de Racine. Andrómaca, tras la guerra de Troya, es entregada como esclava a Pirro (Neoptólemo), hijo de Aquiles. Este mito ya había sido tratado por Eurípides en una obra homónima y se inspira en Virgilio y en Séneca.
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