I have something in common with Alexander the Great
ɪ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴛʜɪɴɢ ɪɴ ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴏɴ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴀʟᴇxᴀɴᴅᴇʀ ᴛʜᴇ ɢʀᴇᴀᴛ, ᴀɴᴅ ꜱᴏ ᴅᴏ ʏᴏᴜ, ɪꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ʀᴇᴀᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ɪʟɪᴀᴅ. One of my favourite pieces of text is Homer’s epic poem, The Iliad, about the last weeks of the Trojan War. This was Alexander’s favourite work too, and he read it endlessly. Homer’s other seminal work, The […]