Soldier, Priest, and God
Soldier, Priest, and God Whatever we may think of Alexander--whether Great or only lucky, a civilizer or a sociopath--most people do not regard him as a religious leader. When he used religion…
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Soldier, Priest, and God
Whatever we may think of Alexander--whether Great or only lucky, a civilizer or a sociopath--most people do not regard him as a religious leader. When he used religion astutely, he and his army prospered. And yet religion permeated all aspects of his career.
Babylon surrendered to him partly because he agreed to become a sacred king. In Egypt, he performed the ceremonies needed to be pharaoh, and thus became a god as well as a priest. When Alexander disregarded religion, he and his army suffered.
In Iran, for instance, where he refused to be crowned and even destroyed a shrine, resistance against him mounted. In India, he killed Buddhists, Jains, and Hindus by the hundreds of thousands until his officers, men he regarded as religious companians, rebelled against him and forced him to abandon his campaign of conquest. Although he never fully recovered from this last disappointment, he
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