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Alexander the Great was antiquity\'s greatest commander
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Herodotos says that corpse mutilation was not a Persian custom and that it did not sit well with Xerxes subordinates.
The real reason for the mutilation was the "Molon Lave" undiplomatic to say the least, answer of Leonidas.

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