{"id":65537,"date":"2020-06-05T22:04:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T20:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/?post_type=ciekawostki&#038;p=65537"},"modified":"2021-05-07T21:45:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T19:45:18","slug":"octavian-and-alexander-the-great","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/octavian-and-alexander-the-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Octavian and Alexander the Great"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/oktawian-august\/\">Octavian Augustus<\/a>, <b>after the victory <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/bitwy\/bitwa-pod-akcjum\/\">at Actium<\/a> (31 BCE)<\/b> and the suicidal death of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/kleopatra-vii\/\">Cleopatra<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/biografie\/marek-antoniusz\/\">Antony<\/a>, when he entered Alexandria, ordered to be taken to the tomb of the great Macedonian general, Alexander the Great. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/suetonius\/\">Suetonius<\/a>, he honored the body, put a golden crown on his head and showered the body with flowers. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The servants asked Octavian if he would like to see the tombs of Ptolemy, the last dynasty of Egyptian rulers. The Roman replied, &#8220;I came to see a <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-kingdom\/roman-kings\/\">king<\/a>, not a row of corpses!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cassius Dio added that when <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/augustus\/\">Augustus<\/a> touched Alexander&#8217;s body, he accidentally broke off a small piece of his nose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36477,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[83],"class_list":["post-65537","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-ancient-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/65537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/65537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=65537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}