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• But Daniel’s prophecy also said, “Therefore the he-goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken.” Alexander the Great, the horn of the he-goat in the prophecy, died in his prime, unexpectedly, in Babylon, but not in battle. Depending on the historian, he succumbed either to alcoholic liver disease after a particularly nasty drinking bout, or to poisoning, or to an infectious disease such as typhoid fever.
• But what of the impact of Alexander’s military campaigns? Many people would suggest that following Alexander the Great’s victories, Greek language and culture swept through the then-known world, and everyone became Greeks.
• But we need to distinguish here between the Hellenisation process, and the adoption of the Greek language.