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Hello allI was just remembering one anecdote I read somewhere (maybe in a version of Plutarch's Paralell Lifes adapted for kids since I read it a long time ago, but I am not sure). If I remember it properly, Alexander was in his teens and his gymnastics teacher (or equivalent) told him that he was f...

I guess Mary Renault conjectures that Ptolemy stole the bier transporting Alexander's body to avoid Cassander's "revenge" on it and to also avoid the civil wars "forcing" one of the parties to melt the bier and use the gold to pay for mercenaries, etc. However, the "funeral ...