Не-личность в истории
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bouzygesВ новом предисловии к своей биографии Александра Македонского Питер Грин пишет:
...Thus useful scholarship, of which there has been a great deal, has not in any fundamental way affected the basic contentions of my biography: that Alexander was a militarily brilliant obsessional whose obsession was conquest; whose superstitious narcissism easily slid, as unparalleled successes accumulated, into megalomania and delusions of godhead; who waged his internal struggle for supremacy against Macedonia’s powerful autocracy, throughout his Asiatic expedition, with a ruthlessness worthy of Stalin or Pol Pot; who staved off crisis after crisis with massive bribes to his exhausted troops from the ransacked treasuries of the Achaemenid empire; whose paranoia about conspiracies against him increasingly came to exemplify the old mot that the paranoid very often have something to be paranoid about; and whose goals, by the end of his short life, had diverged so radically from those of the men he led that on his death every single one of his latter-day plans, military and other, was cancelled, literally overnight, and never heard of again...
Кажется важным, что Александр, будучи древним тираном-завоевателем, похоже, еще не обладал личностью как таковой. Видимо, он был на пути к тому, но вместо личности обрел (и потерял) великое царство. Сделавшись полубогом войны, он остался не более чем полу-человеком. Золотой венок вместо половины башки.
...Thus useful scholarship, of which there has been a great deal, has not in any fundamental way affected the basic contentions of my biography: that Alexander was a militarily brilliant obsessional whose obsession was conquest; whose superstitious narcissism easily slid, as unparalleled successes accumulated, into megalomania and delusions of godhead; who waged his internal struggle for supremacy against Macedonia’s powerful autocracy, throughout his Asiatic expedition, with a ruthlessness worthy of Stalin or Pol Pot; who staved off crisis after crisis with massive bribes to his exhausted troops from the ransacked treasuries of the Achaemenid empire; whose paranoia about conspiracies against him increasingly came to exemplify the old mot that the paranoid very often have something to be paranoid about; and whose goals, by the end of his short life, had diverged so radically from those of the men he led that on his death every single one of his latter-day plans, military and other, was cancelled, literally overnight, and never heard of again...
Кажется важным, что Александр, будучи древним тираном-завоевателем, похоже, еще не обладал личностью как таковой. Видимо, он был на пути к тому, но вместо личности обрел (и потерял) великое царство. Сделавшись полубогом войны, он остался не более чем полу-человеком. Золотой венок вместо половины башки.