The LIttle King
Taunted with effeminacy, a Greek Pankration champion*, Dioxippus, meets a Macedonian bully named Coragus in front of Alexander. The officer shows up in full armor, sword, spear, the works. Dioxippus arrives naked and oiled, carrying a small club. Coragus throws the spear, the Greek ducks it, slams the loudmouth bully to the ground, and is about to beat him to death when the enraged king stopped the fight. Later Dioxippus is crudely framed for theft, he will kill himself out of impotent fury and humiliation. The king knew his troops were guilty of this and did nothing about it. For all their reputation as great warriors it should be noted that Rome swept Macedonia aside and ended it's pretensions for all time. * http://ancientolympics.arts.kuleuven.be/eng/TC007cEN.html Dateline Samarkand, 328 BC. Alexander III of Macedon is slipping into alcoholism and paranoia. Uh, more like just paranoia, he had been a ferocious drunk s...