The sloppy thinking around the hypothesis that Alexander spread Hellenism is also challenged. Janko writes ‘Alexander the Great of Macedon was specially credited with the spreading of Macedonian culture. It is understood that in his army he had Greeks, Thracians and those belonging to other nations, and in that way he was spreading part of their culture into Asia, but it is very wrong to write that he was spreading only ‘Greek' culture." He was spreading Balkan culture - Macedonian, Greek and Thracian. Yet an author such as Bernard Randall in Alexander the Great can write "Alexander had spread Hellenistic culture to every corner of his empire." As Hellenistic is a mixture of Macedonian and Greek influences, this ignores the influences that were purely Macedonian and the influences that were neither Macedonian nor Greek.