Alexander the Great Quotes

“Bessus’s moment came too late, for the Fates had already cut the empire’s thread with their shears.”
― Anthony Everitt, Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death

“The most important personage who came to light was Oxyathres, a younger brother of Darius, to whom Oxyathres had been devoted.”
― Anthony Everitt, Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death

“panicked and fled. Many were killed. Ariobarzanes himself escaped into the hills with forty cavalrymen and five thousand foot.”
― Anthony Everitt, Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death

“Instantly identifiable, he was not only a human flag or standard to be followed and protected at all costs, but also a key enemy target.”
― Anthony Everitt, Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death

“Greeks were a religious people and there is little reason to suppose that the priests at Delphi were regularly guilty of conscious deceit or fakery.”
― Anthony Everitt, Alexander the Great: His Life and His Mysterious Death