last words

[Kasia]

I was looking for this information,but i didn't fibd it...How souds the last words of Alexander?Best wishes and I'm sorry for my not-well english:-)

[beausefaless]

Greetings Kasia,Your English is better than my Dutch.
Alexander was asked: To whom to you give your world? Alexander replied: To the strongest.
All the best,Andrew

[agesilaos]

The Greek would have sounded hoti to kratisto. He is also reported as saying that he foresaw great games to attend his funeral (of the top of my head my Greek does not stretch that far).

[Kit]

Unless he really did say 'To Craterus' and was just misheard? Which of course begs the question- was he misheard deliberately!?regards,Kit.

[ruthaki]

In my opinion , Yes. But, who will ever know for sure? RuthK

[agesilaos]

The story of the last words is surely late and vulgate; great man dies certain historians need a suitable bon-mot. According to Arrian Alexander had been unable to speak for three days so this sudden recovery jars; he merely motioned at Perdikkas and gave him the ring.Naturally it would suit say Ptolemy to sow the seeds of doubt about the legitimacy of Perdikkas' claim, and Krateros was safely dead when Ptolemy wrote but even this fouders on the fact that Arrian does not attribute the quote to anyone but 'others' means that it was not in Ptolemy or Aristoboulos merely an invention of a vulgate author. So all conspiracy theories fall here; interesting fiction but poor history.

[marcus]

Very good point, Karl.I'd never thought about that before, but you must be right.Marcus