The true picture of Alexander, to me, who will usually try to see the positive light of things "he was amazing. He was someone I would have been proud to be the wife of (I didn't read anything about him killing his wives). Especially if I were already a Queen of some sort who understood the reasons behind evil deeds that "had- to be done. In my opinion, evil deeds are always an option, yet when one considers the personality disorders of poor Alexander, one realizes that some things were simply inevitable products of insanity or demon possession. Alexander the Great was a lot like my sister, yet on a much grander scale of course. He was a lot like her in that he was such a beautiful person in every way, and yet he was subject to fits of schizophrenia, manic-depression, and paranoia. Perhaps it was because he was a genius that his psychological imbalance was so evident. Also, the way he was raised surely could have been another component to the nature of his psyche. In some additional reading besides the text, I found one source that relates the point of his mother and father not having a good relationship with each other, and that his mother was unusually and over-protectively close to her son. They even mention an Oedipal complex, which I refute for the mere fact that from what I see of Alexander gives no evidence of such a complex. I believe another reason for his insanity could be that he was demon-possessed, which of course would be illogical to anyone who does not believe in demons, but to those who do, it is very likely that he was. Considering the point that he believed himself to be divine, descended from Zeus-Ammon, Ammon who was the serpent god, the serpent being the direct tool of Satan in the Garden of Eden. As legend has it (which is also depicted on a coin in the textbook) Alexander had horns to go with his rather demonic personage. I believe that it was either on a film, or Miss Gunter said that his Barbour finally couldn't take it any more, and exclaimed something like; "he has horns! The bloody devil has horns!- (that is exaggeration on my part since I don't know the exact quote) I think that after that, Alexander killed him.