[emperor-of-mankind]

The so called Alexander Sarcophagus, Date: 4th Century "BC"

[corporialus]

Tonight’s study, Alexander The Great.

Statue is a Roman copy, currently at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Denmark.

[i-likecherrycola]

alexander the great sleeping with a annotated copy of the illiad is actually the modern equivalent to me downloading gay fanfiction to read anywhere i can

[xrysadc]

Had a fight with some people online whether Alexander the Great was Greek or from North Macedonia🥀 Can't believe we're still debating this.

[ghostlynocturnalspirit]

thinking about alexander and his beloved hephaestion again. him reading the illiad by homer and seeing himself and his friend in the great demi-god and hero; him standing with his lover over achilles' and patroclus' grave. him giving hephaestion the position of chiliarch, meaning he was second in rank only to alexander himself. him saying to his enemy's wife that she has made no error in prostrating before hephaestion because he is alexander himself. him chasing glory and flying too close to the sun, like icarus had done, losing his one true love. his grief being so deep that he cut off his hair like achilles once did for his patroclus; forbidding music and ordering mourning throughout the entire state; worshipping hephaestion like a god. him not soon after succumbing to death's sweet embrace and there becoming a youth once again, meeting his dearest friend in the afterlife with a smile.

[shrimplyhenry]

Thinking about Achilles and Patroclus but also Alexander the Great and Hephaestion and how they were the definition of unresolved longing.

[corporialus]

Alexander the Great, based off the “battle of issus” mosaic from pompeii

[oathtoblood]

The Stag Hunt

Pella, Macedonia (4th Century BC)

[nikaapteros]

alexander the ok

[chaotic-goose123]

And Alexander wept, for there were no more bitches at the function

[fanfanlemoko]

Cette image représente la sculpture connue sous le nom "d'Alexandre Rondanini", identifiée comme une représentation d'Alexandre le Grand (Alexandre III de Macédoine) datant d'environ 330 av. J.-C.

[not-ester]

"[When Alexander asked to be worshipped like a God] in 324, Sparta's reply to his request was mocking:

"We allow Alexander to call himself God, if he so pleases!"

In Athens, Demosthenes said:

"Let him be the son of Zeus or Poseidon, if he wants, like I care""

They really had just given up by that point

[myidic]

Alexander would totally have rocked the Met Gala. He would absolutely peacock out, and Hephaestion would look devastating next to him.

[whateverilikekindofblog]

If Alexander the Great lived to see indoor plumbing he'd waste so much money on something like this

[spineless-lobster]

Looking at the portrait of alexander the great as zeus-ammon will have you saying shit like “was alexander the first gay furry to rule an empire?”

[got-cursed-like-eve-got-bitten]

when i say my favourite historical figure is Alexander the Great ppl tend to assume it’s bc ‘oh he conquered most of the known world’ no it’s because he was a messy little diva and I luv him. Like pop off queen kill Cleitus in a drunken rage. Or wow bby I luv the way you mourned ur “bestie” hephasteon

also his death was the most twink death ever

[cozycoffeereads]

Ancient Roman Mosiacs