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		koalaman on Sept 3, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Aristotle’s (apocryphal) advice to Alexander the G... I'm confused, Alexander the Great was an Arab?

stevenmays on Sept 3, 2015 [–]

He was Macedonian.

eternalban on Sept 3, 2015 | [–]

Possibly 1/2 Macedonian, 1/2 "Lion-Snake": http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/L... ... ;-)

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