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magicmountain:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 07, 2009, 12:17:39 pm ---Doesn't surprise me. Think of Jesus of Nazareth. ;) ;D :laugh:
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Yes - but Alexander's memory was not preserved and promoted by a worldwide religion and the efforts of missionaries like St Paul.
His cult petered out in Alexandria a few hundred years after his death.
Like King Arthur, Alexander continues to live on in folk memory in a spontaneous way - there is something in his story which has an archetypal power to deeply affect people - much like the story of Jack and Ennis.
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: magicmountain on September 07, 2009, 11:17:34 pm ---Yes - but Alexander's memory was not preserved and promoted by a worldwide religion and the efforts of missionaries like St Paul.
His cult petered out in Alexandria a few hundred years after his death.
Like King Arthur, Alexander continues to live on in folk memory in a spontaneous way - there is something in his story which has an archetypal power to deeply affect people - much like the story of Jack and Ennis.
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Agree, people have been talking about Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, heck even Spartacus for longer than Christ as well and not because of any religious zeal.
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