honey , iβm not spending an extra year in uni to get a classics degree not to respond to this directlyΒ
i) alexander had one (1) unborn child at the time of his death, because he only, miserably, managed to knock up one of his three (3) wives after his boyfriend diedΒ
β> had alexander produced more than ONE (1) child, the hellenistic age would not have been defined by the fallout caused by his generals warring to decide a successor, ultimately destroying his empire and arguably sending everyone from macedon to modern-day palestine into a cultural dark ageΒ
ii) macedonian kings took multiple wives to secure succession, a political move that alexander resisted despite the urging of both antipater and olympias (iβll let you google them on your own time) for almost an literalΒ
β > thereβs an anecdote found in the curtius , yourΒ βhistorical referenceβ β you can google his dates β about alexanderβs parents sending him a hooker because they were afraid he didnβtΒ Β β¦ how do i say it nicely? wanna fuck womenΒ
itβs absolutely true that you canβt say alexander was gay; thatβs grossly reductive, becauseΒ sexuality didnβt exist by modern definition in ancient times. more, alexander DID bone a woman, willingly, at one point β a satrapβs (google that) wife, named barsine, with whom he may or may not have produced a bastard child called heracles. getting dicked down doesnβt negate wanting to dick another down, an interesting concept that you would be familiar with if you took a quick jaunt out of that homophobic bubble wrap youβve duct-taped yourself into.Β we also canβt FOR SURE 100% conclusively say that alexander and hephaestion boned;Β butΒ plutarch, curtius, and diodorus are some notable biographers who delve into detail about alexanderβs life-long, likely romantic connection to his right hand man, who he mourned so excessively at the time of his death that there was hardly a dime left for alexanderβs own funeral. they didnβt make that shit up β you can google what source criticism is, but some of THEIR sources included ptolemy i soter and callisthenes β oof, more people for you to google! modern scholars from reames to borza to mΓΌller to green assume that he was getting dicked down for the above reasons, too!
at last, i shall acknowledge that my Humour Post refers to lucian (pro lapsu inter salutandum 8), who has some wink-wink-nudge-nudge content concerning who slept in whose tent when, but who wants to retread old ground? hereβs another one of my favorites instead:Β
323 was the year of alexanderβs death (historical!), but even if lucian made all of this up, as this scholar seems to nudge at, itβs still quite telling that a cultural memory and historical tradition that the romans associated with alexander includedΒ his love of massive, throbbing cocks, non?Β
people who share your dreadfully uninformed and outdated opinion include, if iβm not mistaken, a handful of stodgy greek lawyers, a man named william woodthorpe tarn, and helmut berve. tarn was an imperialist, and berve? a literal nazi.