THEY HAD AND GAVE TO HIM THE CROWN OF QUEEN KLYTOEMNESTRIA,THE DAUGHTER OF KING TYNDAREIS,SHE WAS SISTER TO HELEN OF TROY,ANDQUEEN AND WIFE TO AGAMANNON.
PROIR TO GOING TO TROY HE HAD AN ENCOUNTER WITH THE ATHENIANS.ALEXANDER APPROACHES THE GREAT CITY FORTRESS OF ATHENS,AS HE APPROACHED ATHENS THEIR COUNCIL REFUSED TO ACCEPT ALEXANDER,AND DIOGENES LEFT IN ANGER AND JOINED ALEXANDERS CAMP,AND WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN ITS CONQUEST BY HIS EXCELLENT ADVICE.
ALEXANDER TRIED IN VAIN TO OVERCOME THEIR CITY FORTRESS,BUT SUSTAINED MANY WOUNDED AND LOST MANY FOUSATTA. THERE WAS GREAT RESENTMENT IN HIS ARMY TOWARDS THESE ATHENIANS. DIOGENES SAID TO ALEXANDER, EVEN DARIUS WITH ALL HIS MIGHT WILL NOT COME AGAINST THE ATHENIAN WALLS, YOU MUST TRICK THEM INTO LEAVING THEIR FORTRESS.
ALEXANDER HEEDED THESE WORDS OF VALUE AND BUILT A WOODEN STATUE OF APOLLO,THEIR GOD.HE SENT A MESSAGE TO THE ATHENIANS THAT THEIR GOD HAD DEFEATED HIM, AND HE LEAVES 2000 SHEEP AS A TOKEN TO THEIR GOD APOLLO.WHO HAS DEFEATED HIM ,AND TO THE ATHENIAN TROOPS THAT FOUGHT SO VILANTLY. THE ATHENIANS BELIEVING THIS AND IN THEIR OWN MIGHT ,LEFT A SMALL GARRISON IN THE FORTRESS,THEY TAKING THE STATUE OF APOLLO INSIDE,AND WENT ABOUT ROUNDING UP THE SHEEP.
ALEXANDER FOUSATTA SURPRISED THEM,CUTTING THEM OFF FROM THEIR FORTRESS, AND WITH HIS CALVARY DESTROYED THEM. INSIDE, AS DID THE TROJANS, ALEX. HID A FEW SOLIDERS INSIDE THE STATUE.THEY CAME OUT AT NIGHT AND OPENED THE GATES OF ATHENS. HIS SOLIDERS WHO HAD LOST FRIENDS STARTED A SLAUGHTER, ALEXANDER UNABLE TO CONTROL HIS FOUSATTA,ORDERED FIRE TO BE SET TO FORCE HIS FOUSATTA OUT OF THE CITY.
ALEXANDER THEN PROCEEDED TO THE GREAT CITY OF ROME. THE ROMAINS HEARING OF THE DEFEAT OF ATHENS WERE EAGER TO ACCEPT ALEXANDER. THEIR COUNCIL BELIEVED HIM TO BE THE SON OF APOLLO THEIR GOD,FOR IN THEIR TEMPLE THEY HAD A BOOK CALLED THE BIBLION,WHICH CONTAINED A PROPHESY OF ALEXANDER COMING .
HE WAS GREETED BY 4000 PRINCES,AND 2000 PRINCESSES. ALSO GATHERED WAS 40,000 CARRING WREATHS,IN GOLDEN CLOTHING. THE ROUTE INTO ROME WAS LIGHTED BY 2000 OLD MEN CARRING TORCHES.THE CALAVARY RODE OUT SHOUTING LONG LIVE KING ALEXANDER.HE WAS GIVEN AS A GIFT THE CLOAK OF SOLOMON,AND 12 GOBLETS FULL OF PRECIOUS STONES TAKEN BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR FROM JERUSALEMS TEMPLE OF SOLOMON.ALSO GIVEN TO ALEXANDER WAS THE CROWN OF KING SOLOMON,WITH 3 LARGE DIAMONDS AND 12 LESSER DIAMONDS.INCLUDED IN HIS GIFTS WAS THE SPEAR OF TURNUS,KING OF THE RUTULIANS.
THE ROMANS TOOK HIM TO THEIR TEMPLE OF APOLLO, AND GAVE HIM THEIR BOOK CALLED THE BIBYLON. ALEXANDER PHILOSPHERS AFTER READING THIS PROPHESY, TOLD ALEXANDER IT WAS OF THE PROPHET DANIEL,CONCERNING HIS CONQUEST OF THE WORLD. ALEXANDER APPONTED A RULER AND DEMANDED TRIBUTE AND A ARMY, WHICH THE ROMANS GAVE BELIEVING HIM THE SON OF APOLLO,BUT THE PROPHESY WAS OF DANIEL, OF ALEXANDER.
PROOF THAT IS INTERESTING, IS THAT THE ONLY STATUE OF APOLLO IN THE WORLD TO HAVE RAMS HORNS IS IN ROME, ROMAINS THINKING ALEX, IN THE PROPHESY THE SON APOLLO .
ALEXAXANDER DEPARTED ROME STRONGER THAN WHEN HE WENT WITH WEALTH AND A LARGE PART OF THE ROMAN CALVARY. ONE OF THE REASONS ROME RULED THE LATER PART OF HISTORY ,IS THAT IT HAD THE WISDOM NOT TO FIGHT ALEX, BUT TO ACCEPT HIM.
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