Tusculan Disputations · Character
Alexander the Great
Macedonian conqueror; often cited as example of ambition and mortality.
minor
Also known as Alexander
First appearance: tusculan disputations
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With Diogenes the Stoic (social): Alexander the Great famously encountered Diogenes the Cynic (often conflated with Diogenes the Stoic in later tradition), with Diogenes famously telling Alexander to stop blocking his…
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- Social
- Other
Character groups
- Philosophers and conqueror
- Diverse historical and philosophical figures
- Stoic and Roman exemplars
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social · ambivalent
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