A portrait of Alexander III of Macedon, the famous conqueror of the Achaemenid Persian Empire and the man who ushered in the so-called Hellenistic Age, when Aegean cultural influence spread as far away as Africa and India.
There rages on the interwebz a HUGE debate over whether or not Alexander and his Macedonians were Greek or a distinct Indo-European people. Ancient Greek sources disparagingly referred to the Macedonians as barbarians, meaning non-Greeks, so I decided to go with a "barbarian" look for my reconstruction of this character. That's why he has blue face paint, a bearskin cape, and a Nordic appearance (normally I give my Greek characters olive complexions and dark hair).
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