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In Alexander the Great: Sources and studies, William Woodthorpe Tarn wrote, "There is then not one scrap of evidence for calling Alexander homosexual." [ 16 ] Ernst Badian rejects Tarn's portrait of Alexander, stating that Alexander was closer to a ruthless dictator and that Tarn's depiction was the subject of personal bias. [ 17 ]
Roxana (died c. 310 BC, [1] Ancient Greek: Ῥωξάνη, Rhōxánē; Old Iranian: *Raṷxšnā-"shining, radiant, brilliant", Persian: روشنک, romanized: Rošanak) sometimes known as Roxanne, Roxanna and Roxane was a Sogdian [2] [3] or a Bactrian [4] princess whom Alexander the Great married after defeating Darius, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire, and invading Persia.
The Alexander Romance is an account of the life and exploits of Alexander the Great. Of uncertain authorship, it has been described as "antiquity's most successful novel". [1] The Romance describes Alexander the Great from his birth, to his succession of the throne of Macedon, his conquests including that of the Persian Empire, and
Archaeological site of Pella, Greece, Alexander's birthplace. Alexander III was born in Pella, the capital of the Kingdom of Macedon, [10] on the sixth day of the ancient Greek month of Hekatombaion, which probably corresponds to 20 July 356 BC (although the exact date is uncertain).
List of Russian royal mistresses and lovers includes mistresses, minions, favourites and simply lovers of the Russian emperors and reigning empresses before and after their coronations. Only two child-emperors did not have any lovers: Peter II and Ivan VI .
Pages in category "Lovers of Alexander the Great" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Khosrow and Shirin, Bahram-e Gur, and Alexander the Great, who all have episodes devoted to them in Ferdowsi's Shahnameh, [5] appear again here at the center of three of four of Nizami's narrative poems. The adventure of the paired lovers, Layla and Majnun, is the subject of the second of his four romances, and derived from Arabic sources. [5]
Alexander Romance,14th century Armenian illuminated manuscript. In the third-century AD, a quantity of legendary and historical material about Alexander the Great coalesced into the production of a text known as the Alexander Romance. The text is pseudonymously attributed to Callisthenes, a court historian of Alexander the Great. For this ...