Alexander the Lucky

That should be his title. After reading this section on the book I happened to be flipping through the channels and there was something on the History Channel abotu Alexander the Great. Alexander came from Macedonia in northern Greece. After his father revolutionized warfare for the Greeks and subsequently conquered all of Greece his father had died leaving Alexander in the perfect spot. He went to war with the Persians and ending up conquering them and all existing known lands of the world at that time. So effectively you can say that Alexander was the only man to conquer the known world. Yet Alexander happened to be in love with his best friend, presumably his mother or sister, and his three wives. He also happened to be a psychopathic genocidal maniac. This latter part is less talked about in the annals of history because of the winning side getting to tell the story of what happened. So in this aspect we won't truly know is whether or not Alexander was like that. So a person can also gather that history is very subjective too as to who was victorious.