If you could meet one person from the past (recent or distant), who would it be and why?
I'd like to have dinner with Alexander the Great. He's one of those people whose impact on world history has dominoed as time progressed, and yet we have nothing in the way of primary sources actually created by him (aside from relics and cities). I'd like to get inside the man's head and figure out what motivated him to do what he did.
What would be really fun would be to sit down with Alexander, Napoleon, and Hitler and just let the three compare notes on world-conquering. I wonder how similar the three would be...
Anyway, what do other people think?
I'd like to have dinner with Alexander the Great. He's one of those people whose impact on world history has dominoed as time progressed, and yet we have nothing in the way of primary sources actually created by him (aside from relics and cities). I'd like to get inside the man's head and figure out what motivated him to do what he did.
What would be really fun would be to sit down with Alexander, Napoleon, and Hitler and just let the three compare notes on world-conquering. I wonder how similar the three would be...
Anyway, what do other people think?