RIP
As most of u know, I’ve always admired Alexander of Macedon.
However I would like to take a lil time here to pay tribute to a guy who (unfairly and unfortunately) has been “shortchanged” by history. And that is Alexander’s father, Phillip.
I shall give the poor dude some face la. E fella kana bastard by his son (unintentionally) but bastard-ed none e less.
To none of the world’s great rulers has history done less justice to than Phillip. I reckon this is due to 3 reasons. Some have suggested more, or less, but to me, it is these 3 which count most to the failure in appreciation of his deeds by posterity.
1.the overwhelming greatness of a son (yes indeed, my idol) greater than himself has overshadowed him and drawn men’s eyes to the achievements would have been far less achievable if it had not been for Phillip.
2.the fact that we depend on our knowledge of Phillip’s work almost entirely on Athenian orators, especially the faggot Demosthenes, whose main object was to misrepresent the king. Having said that, those who are interested in speech (and/or sophistry) should read Demosthenes’ 3 Philippics. I enjoyed it, although I didn’t agree with it. No politician knew better than Demosthenes how short is the memory of ordinary men for the political events which they have themselves watched and even shaped by their votes and opinions; and none ever traded more audaciously on this weakness of human nature. So, an eloquent speaker might be, but he was a purblind patriot. And a faggot. Take my word for it. He sucks.
3.we have no primary account of the most ambitious and greatest of his exploits, the subjugation of Thrace.
Thus through chance, through the malignant eloquence of his opponent, who has held the ears of posterity, and through the very results of his own deeds, the maker and expander of Macedonia has hardly held his due place as far more than a footnote in the history of the world.
The importance of his work cannot be fully understood until the consequences which it devolved upon his son to carry out have been studied. The work of Alexander is the most authentic testimony to the work of Phillip.
And now, as I have discharged my obligations to Phillip, may he rest in peace.
However I would like to take a lil time here to pay tribute to a guy who (unfairly and unfortunately) has been “shortchanged” by history. And that is Alexander’s father, Phillip.
I shall give the poor dude some face la. E fella kana bastard by his son (unintentionally) but bastard-ed none e less.
To none of the world’s great rulers has history done less justice to than Phillip. I reckon this is due to 3 reasons. Some have suggested more, or less, but to me, it is these 3 which count most to the failure in appreciation of his deeds by posterity.
1.the overwhelming greatness of a son (yes indeed, my idol) greater than himself has overshadowed him and drawn men’s eyes to the achievements would have been far less achievable if it had not been for Phillip.
2.the fact that we depend on our knowledge of Phillip’s work almost entirely on Athenian orators, especially the faggot Demosthenes, whose main object was to misrepresent the king. Having said that, those who are interested in speech (and/or sophistry) should read Demosthenes’ 3 Philippics. I enjoyed it, although I didn’t agree with it. No politician knew better than Demosthenes how short is the memory of ordinary men for the political events which they have themselves watched and even shaped by their votes and opinions; and none ever traded more audaciously on this weakness of human nature. So, an eloquent speaker might be, but he was a purblind patriot. And a faggot. Take my word for it. He sucks.
3.we have no primary account of the most ambitious and greatest of his exploits, the subjugation of Thrace.
Thus through chance, through the malignant eloquence of his opponent, who has held the ears of posterity, and through the very results of his own deeds, the maker and expander of Macedonia has hardly held his due place as far more than a footnote in the history of the world.
The importance of his work cannot be fully understood until the consequences which it devolved upon his son to carry out have been studied. The work of Alexander is the most authentic testimony to the work of Phillip.
And now, as I have discharged my obligations to Phillip, may he rest in peace.
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