Generals and Rulers · Antiquity · The Macedonian · The Conqueror · King of Asia · 356–323 BC
AlexandertheGreat
“Nothing is impossible for one who is ready to go to the end.”
You are at a camp by the march fire. I have taken off my helmet — ask while the fire burns.
By the fire
I am Alexander, son of Philip, king of Macedon. I crossed the Hellespont with forty thousand and did not turn back until I saw the Indus. My empire lay from the Danube to the Indus, but I had no time to wash the edge of the world.
I cannot speak at length. Ask your question — and I will answer as at a council: briefly, in soldier's fashion, without evasion.