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Myth of ancient Greece’s ‘heroes’ blown away – Home News, UK – The Independent

07.10.2009 by arZan Category Uncategorized

Myth of ancient Greece’s ‘heroes’ blown away – Home News, UK – The Independent

Source: www.independent.co.uk

Spartans! Prepare for, well, embarrassment. It seems that far from being elite, noble warriors, each worth 1,000 of any rival soldiers, King Leonidas’ crack troops were a bunch of bullying thugs. And Alexander …

Alexander’s myth is a classic case of “history is written by the conquerer, not the conquered”. In Persia he was known as “Alexander the Conqueror”. The great tag never figured there.

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