for having a Persian wardrobe, but honoring the king as if he was a god with proskynesis went a bit too far. According to Arrian, Callisthenes explains the existence of separated ways of honoring a god or a human and that prostration is a way to explicitly honor gods. It is seen as a threat to the Greeks, 'who are men most devoted to freedom'. According to Callisthenes, prostration was a foreign and degrading fashion.

The emperor Diocletian