>"And Alexander wept, for their were no more worlds to conquer"Except most of north Africa, most of India, pretty much all of Europe, Siberia, east Asia, most of India, Indochina, the Indies, subsaharan Africa, Australasia, and the Americas(He gets a pass on the last two for realistically having no means of knowing about them. Why did he think he had no more worlds to conquer, was he stupid?
>>18398893He was the de facto sovereign of everything he knew except India and China. He lost in India and China was blocked by mountains.
>>18398893He means civilized worlds
>>18398893The only places that mattered at the time
>>18398893The only places known to the Greeks at the time
>>18399218Did they not know China?
>>18399220Nope.
>>18398893>He gets a pass on the last two for realistically having no means of knowing about themHe's just lacking some good old faustian spirit.
>>18398893the greeks were only interested in places that could grow good grapes for wine
>>18398921No he wasnt you retard. He absolutely had maps, and diplomatic ties to most of the rest of europe, and new of all the indian states beyond what he had conquered. Also he never lost in India. This quote is just something made up a centuries late by fanboys.
>>18399218You are claiming the greeks didnt know about all the greek colonies and neighboring states in Europe and the med? Didnt know about all the states next to the indian states he conquered? This quote is just made up.
>>18398893>And Alexander wept, for their were no more worlds to conquerHe never did this... It's a fake quote. Well fake is a bit much, it's more like a garbled misunderstanding of this scene >"Alexander wept when he heard Anaxarchus discourse about an infinite number of worlds, and when his friends inquired what ailed him, "Is it not worthy of tears," he said, "that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?"https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/De_tranquillitate_animi*.html#ref31(It's nonsense /sci/ and /g/ can have code and calculator functions but /his/ still hasn't gotten a citation and footnote feature) Alexander is doing the opposite, he is crying because he hasn't conquered enough.I bet you are foolish enough to actually think Cicero said this.
>>18400662There were no legitimate competitors or hegemons in Europe. Carthage and Rome were tiny cities not worth conquering. The Germans, Celts and Balkaners didn't have significant states to contend with. Everything outside of India was either controlled by Alexander's empire or subservient to it. No one could say no to Macedon outside of India.
>>18398893>greatest european warrior king ever>invades india and loses Really makes you think
>>18400821The stink poisoned him.
>>18400821>greatest european warrior king everPhilip II was better cause he started off with literally a failed state and by the end of his reign he had made a great power>invades india and losesLogistics and morale did him in.
>>18400736Not worth conquering but random indian city states were?This is cope of the highest level. No one ever took this statement seriously until renaissance tards. Alexander himself had plans for more conquests.
>>18398893Anyone looked into the claim that the Saxons descended from some of the Mercenaries that fought for Alexander the Great?Described by Widukind of Corvey in his Deeds of the Saxons, as an oral legend he heard as a child.Really curious thing, the amount of connections here between all the Aryan Horse Lord descendants and Europe. Why were so many groups described with fair skin, light color eyes, and blonde/red hair?
>>18401244it's the usual classics LARP ala Britain being founded by the Trojan Brutus, or Lithuania's oldest dynasty supposedly being Roman exiles called the Palemonids related to emperor Nero.Northern Europe had little in the way of ancient history and an intellectual culture heavily influenced by Mediterranean civilizations, so they made up connections.
>>18401252I find that hard to buy into, the ancient world was more highly connected then we give it credit, and even the Northern Europeans had some pretty robust cultures including written works, metallurgy, etc. But for the history we see about the Aryan peoples and ancient mythological depictions of gods or great warriors, they all seem to be rather consistently described as having relatively similar features.It's just a shame the written works of the Saxons was destroyed by Louis the Pious, I'm sure a lot of those writings could clear up a fair bit of this confusion, but given the parallels and so much of what we don't know, I don't think it's safe to simply rule out this possibility.Not to mention, the Germanic Tribes put up an excellent fight against Rome, so the whole notion of them wanting to lay claim to foreign achievements seems strange given that they certainly had plenty of their own.
>>18398893Maybe this is a good place for this idk, anyone have translation recomendations on>Pliny the Elder Natural History>Hippocrates works on history descriptions, mainly related to the Scythians, but any other description of Aryan races would be cool>Herodotus writings, maybe a full collection of all his written works or the essential ones that describe White History?
>>18401261I mean history in the literal sense, the culture was way more advanced than people give it credit for but it didn't produce much in the way of lengthy written works about the past, and also Latin Christianity (and through it, Greco-Roman civilization) had an immense cultural influence on them
>>18401267Well they did have written works, the exact quantity I am unfamiliar with, and they did rely on oral transmission far more than other biogeographical groups. Certainly Christianity had an influence, but you could argue that it was a negative one just given how much of their culture and history was lost, destroyed, or rewritten under Christian and Monarchist rule.I've seen a fair deal of evidence to suggest that the lines from which the Germanic peoples descend was a far more nomadic and possibly even a Sea-Faring people, and there are quite a few linguistic and genetic points of evidence which corroborate this, such as King Tutankhamen having a significant DNA match to Western Europeans, the Cherokee and Hope Tribes having a weird ancient mix of European genetic markers, and the Urukehu from New Zealand whose origins also connect to South America. Suffice to say that it would be unfair to dismiss all these anomalies, as it's seems abundantly clear we do not quite know the full picture, and an institutional bias may also prevent serious research into this matter.
>germaboos still trying to ride the coattails of the greatest world builders rather than admit they have been the attack dogs of the false light goddess nose tribesLmao, youll come off that high soon enough. You will join Sunna in the underworld where you all properly belong.
>>18401738Are you talking about Christians being zogslaves or?
>>18401823Christianity and Judaism worship the woman supplanter and pretender. She self-inserts as a co-creator to God but God is two men (a la Sol and Mithras).Just like Sunne replaced Sol deity and why she has to GTFO so Baldr can come back to his rightful place.
>>18401969I personally percieve mythology as history, not as empty spiritualism. So most of what we describe as gods are simply ancestors venerated by their people for generations, recontextualized via Christianity to be seen as "gods"
>>18401982Mythology is an artistic interpretation of events both cosmic and ordinary.You seemed to miss my point entirely.Its related to the myths of the missing star (Phanes, Icarus, Eros) which is associated to Mithras/Jesus, and then the later emergence of Venus worship.Which is why you end up having a lot of myths in which a man is replaced with a woman (Osiris to Isis, Enlil to Ishtar, Baldr to Sunne) and so on.People confused Venus with the missing star.Jesus is killed and his supposed resurrection is celebrated as Easter/Eostre.Do you get it now?You guys venerate a woman in secret while screwing over the man you say out loud that you worship and try to fight for.
>>18402011While I am familiar with those individual characters, I've never really looked at the issue you're trying to relay, so it's not quite resonating with me. That said, I'm not a Christian, nor am I a Pagan or an Athiest, so maybe this topic isn't as interesting to me because my mind is somewhere else entirely.
