king-smaurent:

Favorite Alexander the Great facts:

• Likely had one blue eye and one brown eye like your fave Mary-sues
• Legit thought he was the child of Zeus.
• From a young age showed very little interest in sex, especially the opposite sex which was concerning to everyone around because that’s not Manly™️
• There’s an alleged story that his reasoning for this is because sex reminded him he was mortal. Likewise sleep.
• Like when he was deep in to Persia and trying to integrate Persian customs in to his rule to be more appealing to the Persians, he constructed a harem of women, one for every night of the year but there’s little evidence that he had any interest in them beyond appearances.
• But he did have female companions, and did seem to form friendships with women, particularly older ones.
• He also started dressing Persian, but drew the line at wearing trousers because skies out thighs out amiright
• Slept with his prized copy of the Iliad under his pillow with also a dagger
• A nerd who also walked around with a copy of Herodotus.
• Horse girl
• Short
• tbh this really is my favorite fact. When you know his legacy before you know him it’s not something you expect and I always get a chuckle out of certain stories:
• When he got to Susa and made a grand gesture of sitting on the throne reserved only for the great king (See: Extra Af) ancient sources talked about how, because he was shorter than average and def. shorter than the Persian kings, his feet dangled and his pages had to scramble to find an appropriate foot stool to save face.
• When meeting with Darius’ captive mother he walked in with his closest friend Haphaesteon to whom Sisygambis started pleading to because she assumed he was the king because he was the taller of the two.
• “Alexander assured her that she was not wrong —Hephaestion was just as much Alexander as he was”