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ALEXANDER THE CURSED BY FRAYDON ARYAN
BEGINNING HISTORY OF MACEDONIAN
AGGRESSION
By 6116 AZ=203 IE=356 BC Greece
was a divided, bloody, troubled and exhausted country.
King Philip II of Macedonia in
6134 AZ=221 IE=338 BC smashed the Greek coalition at Chaeronea and made himself
the king of Greece, by brute force and intimidation.
Philip of Macedonia became
rightly known throughout Greece as Philip the
Barbarian”.
Philip came to power in Macedonia
through the disgraceful acts of murdering his two brothers. His background and characteristics and
behaviour were shameful and heinous.
But most importantly, he also played a major role in shaping and making
the later actions of Alexander.
MOTHER OF
ALEXANDER
Alexander was born in Pella the
ancient capital of Macedonia; his mother Olympias was a princess of Epirus
(Albania).
In that part of the world,
especially within the family of Olympias, the first born was thought of as
God’s child”. And it was indeed Olympias who informed
Philip that a God (i.e. Alexander) had been born.
This was not of course the
strangest thing that was to be done by Olympias, who had the status of a
witch. She worshipped strange Gods,
and made many sacrifices. And she
saw her new born as a means to make her own position permanent in Macedonian
Royal house.
Even when Philip was on the
battle field fighting the Greeks in Pella, his own capital, there were constant
uprisings and rebellions against his rule,
mostly masterminded by his devious wife.
Olympias mother of Alexander held
orgies and drunken parties
throughout the night, virtually every night, while Philip her husband was
at war.
And beside all this disloyalty to
Philip she also alienated Alexander from his father by informing him that Philip
was mad, paranoid and perceived her to be his enemy.
She also advised Alexander patient, for when he becomes regent they
both could rule Pella the capital.
These were her devious plans and thoughts, which finally made her plan
Philip’s death.
During neighbouring wars, rumours
had been rampant that Philip had died in battle. Revolts were planned by Olympias against
Philip at Pella, of which Philip
had been well informed.
And for this very reason, the
mother of Alexander, Olympias, was decreed by Philip to be queen no longer, due
to her unfaithfulness to the crown and country of
Macedonia.
In Philip's Palace, the
Macedonians called Alexander
illegitimate and they called him a bastard’!
Philip even had him and his
mother exiled announcing that they were both against him.
Olympias later planned and
masterminded the murder of Philip, to get her power back and to give the throne
to her son Alexander; who by then
had become a nobody; his line of monarchy had been broken, as Philip had
remarried and had had a child. When
Philip divorced Olympias, Alexander and his mother fled from Pella and on his
return he was isolated, insecure and hated among the Macedonians, until Philip
was assassinated in 6136 AZ=223 IE=336 BC.
Philip had married Cleopatra, a
Macedonian, after leaving Olympias.
At the wedding Banquet, Cleopatra’s father made a remark about Philip fathering a legitimate” heir, one that was of pure Macedonian, a remark targeted at Alexander’s roots (Albanian mother). Alexander on hearing this killed the man on the spot.
THE KILLING OF PHILIP BY
OLYMPIAS
Olympias was believed to have set
Pausanias to the task” ....... Olympias had the horses ready for
him.......”. it was also believed
that Pausanias had been instigated by Olympias, the mother of Alexander, and
that Alexander himself was not without knowledge of his father’s
murder”.
Greek
historian
Justin (Junianus
Justinus)
most
of the blame devolved upon Olympias, on the ground that she had added her
exhortations to the young man’s anger and incited him to the deed; but a certain
amount of accusation attached itself to Alexander also”.
Plutarch
On
the night of Philip’s last rites, before Pausanias’s body was burned, Olympias
crowned him, while he was still on his stake and later, dedicated to Apollo the
dagger with which the murder had been done”.
Theopompus (student of Isocrates)
supporter of Greek culture.
Olympias deliberately choose to
have her husband murdered at the celebrations (Philip’s festival at the Macedonian court in Aigai
the old capital, in 6136 AZ=223 IE=336 BC).
And Alexander was party to her
plot and himself promoted the murder of his own father. And later he prosecuted people he knew
to be innocent with cold-blooded hypocrisy.
ATTACK ON GREECE BY
ALEXANDER
Athenians had called Alexander a
tyrant. When Alexander destroyed
the rebellion against his father’s rule he ordered for the city to be burned to
the ground and ordered it to be renamed Alexanderopolis, while his father was
still living!
At Carnia the Greeks saw and
wrote that the fate of Greece would be decided: Would Greece live in freedom or
tyranny?’
Philip became self styled ruler
of Greece, yet he was still known as Philip the Barbarian’ and the
Wolf’.
Most of the first battles were
fought against the Greeks by Philip and Alexander. It was a war between Macedonia and the
Athenians the battle of Carnia
decided who would be master and who would be slave and
servant.
After the Macedonian victory by
Philip and Alexander, the dead were not even allowed to be buried. More than ten thousand had
perished.
And after such a bloodbath, they
held a drunken riot and celebrated over the dead. In Athens there was only hatred towards
the Macedonians, especially their King.
Alexander proclaimed that he
wished for the conquest and the total destruction of the Iranian Empire where
great Kings ruled justly and peacefully. What noble ideals to set out for
civilising!
After Philip’s murder, the
so-called accused were ordered to be stoned to death, this of course excluded
his mother Olympias. Cleopatra the
wife of Philip committed suicide, after her son was thrown into a fire by
Olympias.
Alexander and his general
Perdiccas, attacked Thebes and killed almost everyone in sight; women and
children included. They plundered,
sacked, burned and razed Thebes to the ground, as an example to rest of
Greece.
And an example of what was to be
unleashed on the Great Iranian Empire.
The nightmare for millions had just begun.
Not forgetting, a major uprising
had occurred in Greece against Macedonian rule.
History shows Alexander was
neither Great’ or Greek’.
All historical evidence shows
that Alexander hated the Greeks and vice versa.
His empire was correctly
called Macedonian’, not Greek’ for his army consisted of mostly Macedonians.
He ascended to the throne of
Macedon by force and once in power he ordered the execution of all his
enemies.
Greek cities, like Athens and
Thebes, which had come under Philip’s rule, quickly called for independence from
Macedonian rule.
Alexander quickly on his part
started killing all opposed to him, first starting with the Thracians,
Illyrians, Thebians and finally Athenians.
These were the first atrocities,
committed by Alexander and his army.
Their were many more to take place in his short span of
life.
In the book Alexander der grosse” Fritz Schachermeyr
sees Alexander as ruthless, cruel and indulging in deceit and treachery to gain
his ends.
Alexander like his father Philip, believed that power was absolute! Is this the great root of Western democracy that the West is so proud of?
ALEXANDER’S BACKGROUND & LIFE
IN MACEDONIA
They lived in a world of
superstition, anarchy, and slavery.
Surely neither Macedonia nor Greece was fit to civilize the
civilised?
Alexander was born in a country
of savagery and horror; he witnessed his own father’s murder. He had no regard for human life and
justice, such as the great kings of Iran had.
Greece was the first country to
be raped by him. He destroyed all revolts against him at Thebes and ordered it
to be stormed and razed to the ground, killing six thousand people and selling
the rest into slavery.
It was the Greeks who saw and
knew of his savagery and evil. And
it was for this very reason that they begged the Iranian army to come to their
rescue.
Alexander was ruthless and had no
mercy for the defeated, blood and death were his trade mark. Where ever he went the cries of Alexander is coming, run for your
lives” could be heard.
ATHENS WAR WITH
ALEXANDER
At Athens the supreme military
commander and ruler, Memnon, refused to give a pledge of unity to Alexander and
to go to war with the Iranians.
Memnon then sought refuge in the
Iranian Empire, and in exile used all his energy to wage war and convince the
king of Iran, Dariush III, that Alexander was evil, and that if he were to win
he would burn everything, and destroy everything and enslave the people, as he
had done to Greece.
Memnon’s view was that every man
who hates tyranny should fight Alexander, and urged the armed forces of Iran to
face Alexander's army before he set foot on Iranian soil.
His proposal was that everything
on his path should be destroyed, so that he would be denied supplies and would
naturally be unable to continue his battle.
The king of Iran on hearing this
plan refused categorically as he saw destruction the work of Ahriman’ (devil) and not that of the
king of Iran who had brought prosperity and wealth to that part of the
world. And therefore the
destruction of crops and animals was ruled out of the
plan.
However, at the battle of
Coronium, the victory of Alexander brought slavery, and untold savagery unseen
in that part of the world since the Assyrian empire. Alexander stated that the spoils
of war were his. Immediately after,
the city was pillaged and sacked, women raped, men killed, and put to death in
the most gruesome manner and he even had hostages taken to bring about the
submission of the nearby communities.
Alexander the Macedon, came to
conquer in the name of Hellen,
Death and plunder were his
deeds,
No man could breathe with
ease.
His first steps were on the
land of Greece; Thebes and Athens were his first meal.
Death and destruction he left
behind, for no man was left to defend his ground.
Never before had man seen such
evil, for he resembled evil to the ground.
He soon became known as
accursed, from India to Greece.
His legacy was of ruins, His
fortune untold, His death well told.
Poem on Alexander by Fraydon
A.
GREEK CITIES DESTROYED BY
ALEXANDER
His intention was
destruction.
The slaughter of the Thebans,
destruction of the city and the enslavement of the survivors. Alexander’s (the ruthless murderer )
intention was to terrify the other Greek states into
submission.
At the battle of Granicus, the
massacre of more than Twenty thousand Greek mercenaries according to Greek
accounts.
Also at Massagra, in India, the
massacre of more than seven thousand Indians.
There was a Spartan revolt in
6141 AZ=228 IE=331 BC against the Macedonians.
His crimes against humanity are
endless, and it would take a book to cover just his atrocities, against the
conquered nations, and whoever he confronted, friend or
enemy.
His barbaric acts, such as the punishment of his friend, the Iranian Commander, Bessus (flogged and later mutilated by a gruesome act of cutting of his nose and ears. And later publicly executed at Ecbatana by tying him down to two trees that had been stretched so that on release his body would be ripped into two parts.) The aforementioned atrocities are only a few in a long unending list.
ALEXANDER HATED AMONG THE
GREEKS
Witnesses to Alexander’s
barbarity were still living, even
among the Greeks’; he was still disliked and seen as a foreigner and an occupier
of Athens. These feelings, of
course, were rooted back to his father Philip, who the Greeks bore a deep hatred
too.
Alexander relations with the
Greek states and events in Greece are entirely neglected by most writers, which
is understandable since the discontent the Greeks showed towards Macedonian rule
does not fare well with their version of history.
The portrait of Alexander is one-sided, blind to facts of history,
events and reality. Total
reliance is put on the Greek version of Alexander and is in the main, complete
falsehood.
ALEXANDER THE
MACEDONIAN
Alexander spoke Macedonian - not
the Greek language.
The use of ancient Macedonian
language was raised by Alexander himself during the trial of
Philotas (son of Parmenion commander
of the Macedonian cavalry).
Alexander remarked:
The Macedonians are about to pass
judgment upon you; I wish to know whether you will use their native tongue in
addressing them.”.
Philotas replies:
Besides the Macedonians there are many
present who I think, will more easily understand what I shall say if I use the
Greek language”
Alexander:
Do
you not see how Philotas loathes even the language of his fatherland? For he alone disdains to learn it. But let him by all means speak in
whatever way he desires provided that you remember that he holds our customs in
as much abhorrence as our language.”
MACEDONIA WAS NOT GREECE!
Anyone who is familiar with Greek
and Macedonian history knows very well that these are two different countries
with two different people and customs.
The Macedonians were of Argive
descent, and spoke a different language to that of the
Greeks.
Alexander and his father thought
of themselves as Macedonians, different from and doubtless superior to the
Greeks. And the Greeks for their part, such as the Athenian
politician, Demosthene, were fond of describing Philip as a barbarian’.
Also, the Macedonians were ruled
by Monarchy unlike the Greek city-states of self-ruling
anarchy.
The notion that Alexander's mission was the
spreading of Greek culture is mistaken and a falsification of history. His attitude towards the Greeks affords
no support for this opinion or view,
apart from a liar’s perspective. His treatment of the Greek cities
of Asia minor are testimony to his beliefs.
VIEWS OF HIS GREAT
TEACHER
It is said that Aristotle told
Alexander to treat the people of Asia as animals”:
We
Greeks are the chosen; the elect; our culture is the best; our civilization the
best; our men the best; all others are
barbarians’.
It is our morale duty, to conquer them and to
slave them and if necessary destroy them.”
Yes these are the Great teachings
of Aristotle: racism, slavery and tyranny.
These were the thoughts and ideals that Alexander was
taught.
Should the West not be given real
brave heroic role models, instead of such savages?
When Alexander entered Phoenicia
at Tyre, he ordered his army to kill eight thousand and two thousand to be
crucified for all to see.
Is this the mark of a Great man,
a Hero? , and a role model for all Western leaders to follow?
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