Medallion of Alexander the Great

[TrueMacedonian]

From 'The Climax of Rome' by Michael Grant.

[Daskalot]

Interesting, that is ~500 years after his death......

[TrueMacedonian]

And notice his eyes are looking up towards the SUN!

[TrueMacedonian]

It will come as a surprise to many that the Macedonians had their own Olympic games. The Macedonian king Archelaus founded the Macedonian Olympic Games in the Macedonian city of Dion, which Harvard Profesor Earnst Badian calls "counter Olympics".

[Maxim]

why would Romans make medallions with Alexander they must have liked him because of his big conquers