Alexander the Great

Funny how people could get mad at one another for things that they have no proof of and actually do not affect their lives, except maybe their pride...
Today I watched a Greek getting mad because someone said that Alexander the Great was not Greek, but Macedonian, and gay.
The Greek guy would not have it for nothing in the world. The ridiculous part is in fact that he is only of Greek descent, and never lived in Greece. Still, his nationalism was so evident and so wrong...
I don't know if such things should be amusing or rather sad.
How many conflicts and even wars might have started for stupid reasons like this in the long history of the Silly Mankind.
I just went on the Net and amused myself with some details like this:

Alexander the Great, son of Philip II of Macedonia conquered and ruled a large proportion of the world at the age of 21. He lived from 356 to 323 BC. As a youth he was taught by Aristotle whom some tried to implicate in his death many years later. Perhaps if it were not for his ambitious mother, Alexander may not have become the great king. She was queen to, but one of the many wives of, Philip. When his last wife Cleopatra (a name that was later introduced into Egypt by the conquerors) finally bore a son, Olympias and Alexander were in exile. Philip's daughter was to be married off to her uncle, the brother of Olympias, another Alexander, ( who may have once been the king's lover ) This would have now put Olympias out of the picture but Philip was murdered by Pausanias who was possibly another of his lovers. Philip's new son and heir was soon murdered. Alexander was thus sole heir and now king. The timing points to the intrigues of Olympias, although some suggested an affronted lover's revenge. A sideline is that Ptolemy who later founded the new dynasty in Egypt and was one of Alexander's generals may have also been his step-brother, being possibly the son of Philip but at least the son of one of Philip's concubines.

http://users.bigpond.net.au/bstone/alexander.htm