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To: TigerPaw who wrote (386473)	5/26/2008 4:33:12 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1576004

Alexander was born north of Greece. Yes, he was a Macedonian. Nowhere near Persia. That's why the Greeks and Persians were miffed by being lumped into the same basket as the people of Macedonia. In your imagination. They weren't so lumped. Romans tended to look up to the Greeks as their cultural forebears and superiors. There was a sense that Greece and Persia were the cultural centers of the world and they couldn't understand how their northern neighbor managed to take over both regions. Again you're imagining things. Alexander and Macedon was culturally Greek. Alexander himself was tutored by Aristotle. He was part of the Greek world. To have the Romans conquer Alexander's world and beyond was even a bigger blow to their sensibilities. Again your imagination is working. BTW, Roman conquests didn't extend anywhere near as far east as Alexanders did.