• PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPM
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    Explanation: It is generally accepted that Alexander the Great was bisexual by modern historians, and widely suspected that one of his lovers was his bodyguard, Hephaestion.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Well now I wanna know what killed him.

    *He was sick with fever for a week (possibly typhoid), started to feel better, suddenly ate a bunch and downed some wine, then died pretty quickly afterwards. Ruptured ulcers from the typhoid and eating a bunch? Had some other illness? Poison? Coincidentally had an aneurysm?

    Well no one knows for sure.