Dear marty104-ga,
Alexander the Great and his exploits were admired by many Romans who
wanted to associate themselves with his achievements. These are
various links to evidence of this.
Extracts from ?Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant
Medallions? by Frank L. Holt. (University of California Press) There
are footnotes on the page sourcing the information.
"An envious Julius Caesar wept in Spain at the mere sight of
Alexander's statue. Pompey the Great rummaged through the closets of
conquered nations for Alexander's 260-year-old cloak, which the Roman
general then wore as the costume of greatness. In his zeal to honor
Alexander, Octavian (the future emperor Augustus) accidentally broke
the nose off the Macedonian's mummified corpse while laying a wreath
at the hero's shrine in Alexandria, Egypt. The unbalanced emperor
Caligula later took the dead king's armor from that tomb and donned it
for luck. The Macriani, a Roman family that rose to the imperial
throne in the third century c.e., always kept images of Alexander on
their persons, either stamped into their bracelets and rings or
stitched into their garments. Even their dinnerware bore Alexander's
face, with the story of the king's life displayed around the rims of
special bowls."
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10059/10059.ch01.html
"Twelf Emperors by Suetonius
Julius Caesar, Chapter 7: Julius Caesar quastor in Spain
As quaestor it fell to his lot to serve in Hispania Ulterior. When he
was there, while making the circuit of the towns, to hold court under
commission from the praetor, he came to Gades, and noticing a statue
of Alexander the Great in the temple of Hercules, he heaved a sigh,
and as if out of patience with his own incapacity in having as yet
done nothing noteworthy at a time of life when Alexander had already
brought the world to his feet, he straightway asked for his discharge,
to grasp the first opportunity for greater enterprises at Rome.
Furthermore, when he was dismayed by a dream the following night (for
he thought that he had offered violence to his mother) the soothsayers
inspired him with high hopes by their interpretation, which was that
he was destined to rule the world, since the mother whom he had seen
in his power was none other than the earth, which is regarded as the
common parent of all mankind."
http://www.romansonline.com/Src_Frame.asp?DocID=Stn_JLCS_07
Excavation of a Roman villa in Alexandria
"The archaeological work of the season centered on excavating the
remains of domestic architecture of early-Roman date. This year the
team explored a Roman house situated in the central part of the site,
which featured a central pseudo-peristyled courtyard with a set of
rooms around it. A statue of Alexander the great was recovered from
the structure, which was richly decorated with mosaic and marble
pavements and probably was constructed in the First Century A.D. and
occupied until the Third Century."
http://www.egyptology.com/kmt/fall96/nile.html
In Pompeii there is a mosaic which depicts Alexander the Great in
battle. It is a Roman copy of a Greek painting.
http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/classics/courses/2000spring/hi361f/images.html
The mosaic and why Alexander the Great should be in a Roman villa is
discussed on this page.
http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/MaterialCulture.html
Another mural from Pompeii which depicts the marriage of Alexander the
Great to Barsine (also called Stateira), daughter of the Persian ruler
Darius III, in 324 BC.
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0067329.html
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