“Alexander
the Great (The Norton Library) ” by Ulrich Wilcken
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Alexander represents the whole course of Greek
life, for he has as much as Achilles as of Epaminondas;
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but the
development of greek civilisation into a civilisation which was world-wide. It
is in this way that his influence has affected the history of mankind ever down
to our own time
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for he aimed not only at introducing Greek
culture into the East, but also at revealing to the Greeks the nature and
culture of Asia.
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Alexander
undertook as his first duty the liberation of the Greek cities of Asia Minor
from the Persian yoke
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everywhere the liberation from Persian rule
was greeted with enthusiasm, and Alexander celebrated as the liberator.
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the first
point of the Panhellenic program had been quickly achieved: the Greek cities of
Asia Minor were freed from the Persian yoke and incorporated in the Corinthian
league.
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Instead of treating them as traitors, Alexander displayed surprising leniency and generosity to them.
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his desire was here, as in the case of his
previous conquests, to pave the way for Greek culture.
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How these
Hellenomemphites must have rejoiced, when alexander entered the city! They
might well hope that a new era of Greek influence in Egypt was to begin.
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but it lay in the interior of the Delta, and
could not be as effective as a great Greek commercial city on the coast, such
as Alexander now planned.
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it was as a
Greek that he visited the god because his oracle was then regarded as infallible
in the Greek world.
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complete surprise, could not but make the
deepest impression upon him. The god he regarded as Zeus, the great Greek
oracular god, and in Greek language .
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As a bulwark against them, Alexander founded
on this side of the Jaxartes a Greek city, ‘’Alexandria Eschate’’
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To preserve what he had fought for, Alexander
founded on the hydaspes two Greek cities, one Nicaea (victory town) where he
had succeeded in crossing, and the other, where the battle was fought,
Bucephala.
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In this way Greek technology and Greek science
were employed on Indian soil, while Alexander was subduing the country
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Since then he had followed his second aim
only, the winning of Asia for himself and for Greek civilization
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Finally we
come to this civilising policy. Alexander marched out as the enthousiastic
admirer of Greek culture who was to open up the East to its influence.
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The very
cult epithets of these Ptolemies, which the Egyptians had difficulty in
reproducing in their language, show us that this cult of the Hellenistic king
was of PURELY Greek origin;
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already
discern a religious policy at work in the creation by Ptolemy I of the cult of
Sarapis for both Greeks and Egyptians. The example of Philadelphus was soon
followed by the Seleukids.
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Thus in the middle of the Oriental world rose
Greek poleis, whose citizens had brought with them and continued to use greek
language and religion, law and social customs.
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For the
first time in the Greek world arose a library, where the whole treasures of
Greek literature were collected in several hundred thousand papyrus rolls.
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It was from Alexander that the Diadochi took
over the idea of making the Games (Agones) an instrument of propaganda for
Greek culture in the East.
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thus imposed Alexander’s idea of spreading
Greek culture in the East was realised with great success by his immediate successors
in Asia and Europe.
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“The beginnings of Macedonian history are shrouded in complete darkness. There is a keen controversy on the ethnological problem, whether the Macedonians were Greeks or not. Linguistic science has at its disposal a very limited quantity of Macedonian words, and the archaeological exploration has hardly begun. And yet when we take into account the political conditions, religion and morals of the Macedonians, our conviction is strengthened that they WERE A GREEK RACE AND AKIN TO THE DORIANS.”
“Quite
apart from the local separation of the two peoples, the barbaric impression
which the Macedonians made on the Greeks is explained by the close relationship
in which the Macedonians lived for centuries with their barbarian neighbours,
the Illyrians (the ancestors of the Albanians of to-day) in the West, and the
Thracians in the East”
” A strong
Illyrian and Thracian influence can thus be recognized in Macedonian speech and
manners. ‘These however are only TRIFLES compared with the GREEK character of
the Macedonian nationality; for example, the names of the true full-blooded
Macedonians, especially of the princes and nobles, are purely Greek in their
formation and sounds. Above all, the FUNDAMENTAL features of Macedonian
political institutions are NOT ONLY GREEK but primitive GREEK’.
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