Alexander the Great - Ancient Greek Faces

This is perhaps the second part of the Ancient Greek real faces project, which analyses after a lot of research of historical sources that resulted with a design of Alexander the Great's real face, along with some facts about the Macedonian Greek king.

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[jobes]

He looks like the quiet guy who sits in the corner of the office.

[makidtrej]

This is great! not many people know that he had heterochromia! Great attention to details.

[soularzensei]

To all saying Alexander did not have Heterochromia. Think for a moment, he could very well have had some form of heterochromia iridum; whether it was partial or full is up to historian's interpretations which will always be just conjecture and historical theory about documents. It is not that uncommon to have some form of Heterechromia in the greco-balkan region. Some of you reading probably have some form of it yourself. I am half Greco/Balkan myself and have greyish-green eyes with a spec of Hazel in my right eye, and in certain lights people have told me they look blue. Truth is we can never speak with any real certainty of these things, unless you can reproduce Alexander's eyes, isn't that so? Could be as simple as one eye of his having been a deeper shade of blue.

[nolalove]

Wow. Thank you for bringing Alexander to life, and the description included. And Thank You for sourcing and using a sculpture that reflects what he Really looked like; as close as a stone monument can be, one he even said so himself. Not a stylized-for-the-time bust, that is just a reflection of what the artist "thinks" he looked like, while the finished piece looks and shares the same facial characteristics of every other statue of the time. Thank you for finding his likeness that's not housed in a museum somewhere, and is just a stylized reflection by a sculptor that lived hundreds of years after his life. You found a real, period authentic depiction of his true image. This is invaluable, and I can guarantee the first time many have seen it.

The two biggest obstacles to the truth are lack of information and fabricated lies told as truth. (Intentional or not.)
And it begins by the truth of history being lost to the sands of time, rumor and elaborate storytelling being conveyed to those not knowing as 'truth' and incidentally equally as damaging; modern pop culture.

All the leading figures of Antiquity have fallen victim to this. Alexander, Cleopatra, Hannibal, Attila, ...the list is daunting and endless. But the one most especially affected is Spartacus. The Roman's official recounting of the Third Servile War coming hundreds of years after the fact; the entirety of the document is a collection of falsehoods, manipulation of events and exclusion of facts. And all for Rome's benefit.
The resulting recounting is such a blatant untruth (even for the ever-loving self promotional Romans), that even their own scholar scribing it felt so compelled to add an asterisk, including the statement in the text; "The Victor Writes History".

Some figures have more factual history known than others. But not every detail is known for any; and the most pertinent details of their lives and deaths have been left to speculation. No one is really sure how any of these figures met their end. No one has any idea where any are laid to rest.
And for all of the millennia's that have past, pop culture has written their stories to widely varying degrees of accuracy. And not knowing that, people take how the lives of these men and women are portrayed in tv shows and movies as fact, instead of as creative fantasy. And then these new inaccuracies are perpetuated as the new truth. It never ends, and as the years and decades grow from the time these men and women walked the earth and wrote their names and stories into history, the truth is lost.

[zebdawson]

The thing that always blows my mind about one of history’s greatest conquerors, is that Alexander wasn’t the type to lead from the back or to shout orders while sitting comfy. The dude was the tip of his military spear, always the first one to charge in with his army trying to keep up. He was mortally wounded in combat several times throughout his life, and refused to die each time.

I really love the story of the Siege of Tyre, in which his army, upon arriving at the island Tyre (an “unsiegable” fortress at the time), wanted to set up camp and rest before building the land bridge out to the island. Alex granted the men their wish, allowing them a night’s rest, but he himself started hauling dirt and rocks immediately, before they even set up camp. His troops were so inspired that they all joined him hauling dirt and building the bridge. Obviously this story might be romanticized a bit, and I might’ve gotten some key details wrong in my shortened paraphrase, but to me it really exemplifies the spirit that made Alexander “the Great”.

Such a fascinating human, one that in my opinion, deserves the pedestal he’s been placed on.

[jamesjames]

The ancient Greeks had the first rock stars!

[Aprilius_Ceasar]

Alexander the Great was a Greek anyone who disagrees can easily tell me why by writing a comment saying the opposite .

[davidmusicmaker]

He looks more like the easygoing next-door neighbor who mows his lawn regularly and loves to barbecue.

[dianartimus]

Somehow that doesn't really look like the statue nor the mosaics I have seen of him, ancient descriptions are of a fair handsome young man and somewhat dynamic, which for a short man I would think he would have to be considering the things he did and the people he commanded, I would think more of a "Golden Child" that would be very charismatic in looks and personality.

[danmoritz]

Like the legend, he actually was a solid, studly, masculine, looking guy, in life.

[WyattRyeSway]

I figured his hair would be longer and curlier

[sophiegervais]

Cool ! And thanck you ...can't wait to see more !

[padelispadelidis]

Im from pella and i look like him boys

[timb]

so happy you got to Alexander!! would love to see an image of him based on the other statue!!

[thibaultkoudou]

Finally!

I knew he would do a video of Alexander the great.

Keep up the good work! 👍

[diogenes]

Fun Fact : The argead dynasty ( which alexander the great is part of ) actually came from the city of argos in the Peloponnese

[neobogard]

Great depiction. Although his height being short may of been a misunderstanding most of it coming from the fact that Alexander's feet not touching the floor when sitting on Darius's throne which turned out that Darius was actually incredibly tall and described to be a giant of a man. Also Alexander described to be shorter than Hephaestion who was the tallest out of all the Generals.

[guillaumedumoulin]

In ancient texts, Alexander is generally described as having very blond hair. His head is constantly tilting.

[blgejtd]

Alexander is the greatest general this planet will ever know.

[jeffgoesrandom]

The ordinary, every man look modeled on a sculpture said to depict Alexander at the time makes him so real. This reality makes the history about him even more stunning.