
Why do we call this man ‘Alexander the Great’?
Posted by admin on Mar 6th, 2017 in Alexander and Porus, Alexander the Great, Alexanders attack on India, Mauryan, Stories, The battle of the Hydaspes
I can understand the western world, the English or the Americans calling him ‘Alexander the Great’. After all, Ancient Greece is seen as the ‘cradle of Western Civilization’, the birthplace of democracy, rationalism, philosophy and the arts. Western powers, such as the Americans see themselves as heirs to this legacy, a legacy that stretches back through time in an unbroken …