Heroic Temperaments Were Subject to Excesses

April 15, 2025

Tags: Alexander the Great, fiction, rulership

No one knew better than Alexander [the Great] that heroic temperaments such as his own were subject to excesses: as he was excessively brave and extravagantly generous, he was excessively vengeful and extravagantly passionate when thwarted.

— The Gates of Hell, Chapter 1

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