Alexander: a tipical alpha male?
Trying to find something else, I stumbled across this article about ATG and alpha males and how ATG is a tipical alpha male. Well, I don't know much about psychology or alpha males, but it was a nice reading and not too long. So, here is a quote from there and the link:
Alexander the Great: the superb career of an alpha-male
By: Paolo Crocchiolo
"Abstract
In recent years, the psycho-neuro-sociobiologic approach to human sciences is raising growing
interest within the scientific community. In this new perspective EO Wilson’s book “Consilience”
has significantly contributed to draw attention on possible innovative interpretations of history,
philosophy and the arts.
Alexander the Great represents, in this context, a paradigmatic example possibly fitting the classical
features of an α male. Thus, a number of significant episodes of Alexander the Great’s life, as
reported by his biographers, were selected to be discussed and related to their possible biological
significance. Alpha male-related inborn mental/emotional archetypes are hypothesized underlying
these episodes, such as self-deification, loyalty, hubris, magnanimity, polygamy, homosexuality,
and, in several different circumstances, more generally, α male-role playing behaviours."
the link is here:
http://www.aur.edu/pdfs/paper.pdf
Would like to know what some other ppl think of it.
Alexander the Great: the superb career of an alpha-male
By: Paolo Crocchiolo
"Abstract
In recent years, the psycho-neuro-sociobiologic approach to human sciences is raising growing
interest within the scientific community. In this new perspective EO Wilson’s book “Consilience”
has significantly contributed to draw attention on possible innovative interpretations of history,
philosophy and the arts.
Alexander the Great represents, in this context, a paradigmatic example possibly fitting the classical
features of an α male. Thus, a number of significant episodes of Alexander the Great’s life, as
reported by his biographers, were selected to be discussed and related to their possible biological
significance. Alpha male-related inborn mental/emotional archetypes are hypothesized underlying
these episodes, such as self-deification, loyalty, hubris, magnanimity, polygamy, homosexuality,
and, in several different circumstances, more generally, α male-role playing behaviours."
the link is here:
http://www.aur.edu/pdfs/paper.pdf
Would like to know what some other ppl think of it.