"Por que havemos de ser unicamente humanos?" II

Alexander o Grande nasceu neste dia em 356 AEC. 
Esta cabeça de mármore mostra-o barbeado, estilo revolucionário na época, mas que permaneceu na moda até ao reinado do imperador romano, Adriano.  
Esta cabeça foi encontrada em Alexandria, a cidade que fundou no Egipto. 

Marble portrait head of Alexander the Great. 

Found in Alexandria, Egypt, 2nd – 1st century BC. 

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via British Museum 

Alexander The Great

There once was a Macedon lad

Whose mind was a trifling mad.

At twelve years of age, 

He fancied it sage

To render Bucephalus glad.

The boy on his horse would aspire

To better his average sire.

King Philip was mild

Compared to his child, 

Whose spirit consumed like a fire.

At twenty, the bellicose man

Embarked on a grandiose plan.

With dagger and shield

And soldiers to wield

His empire swelled quite a span.

In Egypt, where ships ever sail, 

He carried the crook and the flail.

In Persia he led

As Darius fled

Like a dog with a quivering tail.

There never was fortress to stall

The lord with a lust for the brawl.

He seized with a slam

Of his battering ram

An island surrounded by wall.

But in India vigor was spent

And soldiers began to dissent.

They pleaded, "No more! 

We're tired and sore."

The conqueror sulked in his tent.

Conceding at last to his fate, 

He ordered his men to abate.

Along their way back

A germ would attack

And overtake Alex the Great.

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Michelle Claus