{"id":63922,"date":"2021-02-09T04:00:38","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=63922"},"modified":"2021-02-09T10:50:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T15:50:37","slug":"history-summarized-alexander-the-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/02\/09\/history-summarized-alexander-the-great\/","title":{"rendered":"History Summarized: Alexander the Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iU2IJb4GoC0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Overly Sarcastic Productions<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 19 Sep 2017<\/p>\n<p>Linguistically speaking, Alexander means &#8220;Defender of Men&#8221; from the Greek &#8220;<em>alexo<\/em>&#8220;, defend, and &#8220;<em>aner<\/em>\/<em>ander<\/em>&#8220;, man. 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