Alexander the Great supposedly ate nothing but feta cheese while he was on the roadhttps://twitter.com/rubywisp/status/1334309432411312132 …
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At the very beginning of Plutarch's biography it talks about how he rarely trained with the troops because the troops started their exercises at dawn and Alexander rarely if ever was up before 2 pm
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He spins this to just make him sound more badass ("And he could STILL have kicked anyone's ass!") but I kind of doubt people actually put that to the test
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They've said the same about great writers. The greatness occurred when they were sober.
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Well, so was Ulysses S. Grant, so maybe it works better if you're drunk
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Although for the details, I imagine a lot of things were probably inventions by much later authors.
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He literally got Persepolis burnt to the ground due to a drunken joke
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I once found a scholarly attempt to determine the cause of death of Alexander the Great & that's one of the things that stuck out to me: Dude drank like 12 liters of wine, & that didn't seem unusual. Also how tne body supposedly smelled of flowers. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C33&q=alexander+the+great+death+liter+alcohol&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&u=%23p%3DhQl2nU2O4jEJ …
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So he was a legend, not a genius.
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