“Alexander did not Hellenize so much as he ‘Macedonized’ the world; he propagated not #Greek philosophy or civilization so much as a mode of relating to a culture only partly one‘s own. Insofar as the cultural influence of Alexander‘s #Macedon prefigured the world‘s subsequent Romanization, it is to #Alexander ‘s indeterminate identification that one might trace the tangled roots of the Romans‘ own #universalism.”
—Liebert 2011, p. 558.