Do you think Alexander honestly felt like he was avenging Persian wrongs? Or was that just propaganda to mask his goal of conquest?
I feel like Alexander was doing both. The Greeks never forgot what Persia did to them, and they had wanted revenge for years. Before Alexander's father was murdered, he said he wanted to avenge Persian wrongs. Maybe this inspired Alexander to conquer Persia. He could have wanted to fulfill his father's dream of conquering Persia once and for all. He could have also seen this as an opportunity to not only fulfill his father's dream, but fulfill his own dream of conquest. He practically killed two birds with one stone.
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