Daily Blog 2 Week 5

Konnor Drewen

2/22/011

Do you think Alexander honestly felt like he was avenging Persian wrongs? Or was that just propaganda to mask his goal of conquest?

            Well, depending on what you think of Alexander the Great your answer could vary. Now it does seem that Alexander was avenging for all of the war the Persians caused. They fought for years with the Greeks. So Alexander could have just felt like the Persians had what was coming to them and deserved to be destroyed. He had a lot of reason to attack the Persians. They had been in the Battle of Marathon and the Battle of Thermopylae. I could see why he could feel hatred for the Persians. Now the other part of the question is still a viable suggestion. He could have just wanted more power and territory. He had just gotten into power after his father had been murdered by one of his courtiers. He could have used the fact that the Persians had attacked Greece before to cover up the fact that he wanted to control more power. Alexander the Great once said, “Is it not worthy of tears that, when the number of worlds is infinite, we have not yet become lords of a single one?” This quote would lead a person to believe that all he wanted was power.Now I do disagree with this. While I feel that Alexander the Great was just avenging for what the Persians did, I can accept if someone feels like he was using it as a cover.