so that's why they called him "the great"

well, they also called him "the accursed" heh.

yes, i just caught the tailend of oliver stones Alex the Great on HBO :P

and what made ol' Alex so great? I tell ya what: He did all that conquering before the age of 33! Just 15 years of exploration! Kickin' arse and taking names!
Look at how much land he crossed!

http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~stephan/Animation/alexander.html

And they didn't know diddly squat about Earth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_world_map

...talk about an alpha male.. hmmm. i feel so inferior now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great

the thing i wonder is: didn't they name years? time? surely they weren't calling it 330 BC.. anyone?
cool thing is Alex had a nice little papparazzi and the details of those years of his life were surprisingly well documented (all things considered) by both his own people and the peoples of the far off lands he visited and conquered. well, sortof. keep in mind propoganda, yea, even back then, perhaps, especially back then.