ACHILLES - ALEXANDER

Achilles ... the son of Peleus the King of the Myrmidons

I would much rather have 300 Spartans than any 3.000 Christian Crusaders!

HOMER: illiad / Odyssey ... Eighth Century BCE

" Let me, this instant, rush into the fields ( of battle! )

and reap what glory life's short harvest yields ... "

( Achilles / Homer ... 8th Century BCE )

" Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here

obedient to their laws we lie "

( Leonidas / Simonides ... 5th Century BCE )

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" lord of Phthia, Achilles!

Why, oh why, when thou hearest the man-slaying bufferings of war,

dost thou not draw nigh to our rescue? " Envoys - the Myrmidons - IIiad

contrast Achilles in his tent ...

... as he knew perfectly well!

" I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is

excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion "

= Alexander =

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