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Article: `Great' mystery: Who was Alexander, and why does he intrigue us?
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- Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
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- November 22, 2004
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Byline: Jessica Yadegaran
Were he alive today, Alexander III of Macedonia would probably be a bad-boy drunk with an equally bad dye job. Most likely, he'd also be gay.
But historians say modern labels can't begin to define him. Military genius or tyrannical megalomaniac, Alexander was king of the Macedonians at 20 and ruled the Persian empire by 30. He was a prodigy who flourished under his teacher, the Greek philosopher Aristotle. He was also perhaps the first political feminist and multiculturalist, and a public bisexual.
Two millennia later, the legend of Alexander the Great remains a mystery that continues to unravel in best-selling ...