>>24686932
Both are based and true. History is just propaganda masked as truth and sports is something invented by aristocrats to keep plebs from revolting. Fiction and theatre expand the mind.

>>24687160
Fag talk. Most masculine men love history podcasts sand watching sports, not reading Pride and Prejudice and watching fucking theatre

>>24686932
Alexander probably thought sports were boring because he did more exciting stuff in his daily life.

>>24687199
Real men make history and like fiction and poetry that point to the fecundity of existence. Only fags want to hear about what other guys have already done.

>>24687199
most men are pawn tier fucking retards who would have been bound to slaughter on the battlefield as mere pawns. i love my bros, but let's not kid ourselves here.

>>24686932
>Alexander the Great considered sports a boring waste of time and preferred to stage theatre and poetry readings rather than sports contests
Source?

>>24687609
Plutarch

>>24687612
So headcanon then?

>>24687616
You’re going to be shocked to learn that Plutarch is a major source for academics because he used mostly primarily sources which are no longer available, and that any academic book on Alexander, every academic book on Alwxander, draws heavily from him. You’re probably about to shit yourself when I tell you this, but Arrian is also a major source used by scholars of classical history and Alexander. And just wait until you find out that Polybius is a major source for history of the Roman Republic. I can smell the shit in your pants through the screen

>>24687199
>Most masculine men love history podcasts
History podcatst are just gooning material for guys who get boners daydreaming about Napoopan and how they could win the ACW for the Confederacy.

>>24687636
Polybius was literally there in Rome hanging out with Scipio Aemilianus. Name one primary source of Alexander's time.

>>24687691
Polybius wrote about history hundreds of years before his life, you halfwit. He is taken seriously because (like Plutarch) he researched what he wrote about by going a lot of primary sources that are now lost to time. We know the sources they both used but they’re gone now.

Ptolemy is the only surviving substantial primary source on Alexander. But he certainly wasn’t the only one and we don’t always accept what he says because classical scholars compared him to other primary sources that often differed and concluded that Ptolemy was often very biased and propagandistic in favor of Alexander for obvious reasons (being his very close friend)

>>24687699
>wrote about history hundreds of years before his life, you halfwit.
He also wrote about what was happening in contemporary times. No need to resort to kindergarten insults. The fact that you mention bias and scholars reeks of being new around here. All history is inherently bias so there's no need to toot your own horn like that. Grow up.

>>24687759
>all history is biased therefore when a close friend of Alexander who was one of his generals and made a king by him conflicts with other contemporary accounts in a quite blatant way, like claims Alexander wasn't alcoholic like everyone says and his reputation for drinking a lot was exaggerated because he just socialized a lot and so always had a cup of wine in his hand, it doesn't matter, even though we know Alexander did things got so drunk he murdered an important friend over an argument
>but an historian from antiquity who used multiple primary sources about Alexander and took the trouble to examine and compare discrepancies is just headcanon even though there is not a single academic book about Alexander that doesn't draw immensely from said ancient historian

You aren't just stupid, you prefer to be stupid

Sports are just peacetime simulations of conflict and Alexander could always go to war to satisfy the same urge.

>>24687794
Keep seething, I guess.

>>24687160
are you retarded? sports then and until like the 20th century are primarily forms of martial training and thoroughly aristocratic