text: who really believes that alexander the great was really bi-sexual? i'm still a little "iffy" about that. does anyone have any great literature that proofs he swung the other way? it's fairly well-established that he had a male lover.  it really wasn't uncommon in those days.  in ancient greece, older men often wooed a younger man.  the men would teach the youths wisdom and how to conduct themselves properly in society, and they would get some play for their troubles.  read plato's _symposium_.  it's pretty awesome.  these guys all got drunk and started talking about love, and there was a speech or two claiming that the love between two men (and they don't mean chaste, platonic love) was higher than that between a man and a woman, because it was between equals.