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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 2035131, member: 22004&quot;]Neat coins.&nbsp; He struck me as quite the talented leader.&nbsp; News was a couple weeks ago that they may have found his burial site, have not heard updates on that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an interesting anecdote when he went to visit a philosopher who was not impressed:&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;According to legend, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great" rel="nofollow">Alexander the Great</a> came to visit the Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope. Alexander wanted to fulfill a wish for Diogenes and asked him what he desired.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander#cite_note-Dillon2004-5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander#cite_note-Dillon2004-5" rel="nofollow">[5]</a> According to the version recounted by Diogenes Laërtius, Diogenes replied &quot;Stand out of my light.&quot;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander#cite_note-6" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander#cite_note-6" rel="nofollow">[6]</a> Plutarch provides a longer version of the story:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Thereupon many statesmen and philosophers came to Alexander with their congratulations, and he expected that Diogenes of Sinope also, who was tarrying in Corinth, would do likewise. But since that philosopher took not the slightest notice of Alexander, and continued to enjoy his leisure in the suburb Craneion, Alexander went in person to see him; and he found him lying in the sun. Diogenes raised himself up a little when he saw so many people coming towards him, and fixed his eyes upon Alexander. And when that monarch addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, &quot;Yes,&quot; said Diogenes, &quot;stand a little out of my sun.&quot;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander#cite_note-7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander#cite_note-7" rel="nofollow">[7]</a> It is said that Alexander was so struck by this, and admired so much the haughtiness and grandeur of the man who had nothing but scorn for him, that he said to his followers, who were laughing and jesting about the philosopher as they went away, &quot;But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.&#039;&quot;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander#cite_note-8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander#cite_note-8" rel="nofollow">[8]</a></p><p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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