Who was Alexander the Great?

Alexander the Great

Born the 20th July 356BC, at Pella the capital of Macedon to Olympias and Phillip II King of Macedonia. Taught by Aristotle.

At 16 he proved himself an able leader by putting down a Thracian rebellion.

When Alexander was just 20 years old, his Father Phillip II was assassinated and Alexander became King of Macedonia, and within two years he had started his empire building.

The first engagement was against the Persians at the Granicus River in modern day Turkey. Defeating the Persians he swept through western Asia Minor.

The second major encounter against the Persians took place at Issus, in the south eastern corner of Asia Minor. Darius III had amassed an army to wipe out the Greek threat. But the vicious and tactically superb attack mounted by Alexander routed the Persians,

Alexander now turned south, marching along the Mediterranean coast His only resistance came from the island city of Tyre. Alexander began a siege that would last for seven months. Finally Tyre was completely destroyed in July, 332BC

Alexander now pushed further south, conquering Gaza and then moving into Egypt where the people welcomed him as a deliverer from their Persian rulers. Now Alexander turned north east, moving through Palestine towards the Tigris River. In 331 B.C.E. he met the Persians for the third time. The Battle of Gaugamela saw him defeat superior odds once more.

Darius was later killed by his own people. Swiftly Alexander pushed through to take the Persian Capital at Babylon. He humiliated the Persians by burning their great palace at Xerxes. Before long the entire Persian domain was under Alexander's control.

He now crossed the Indus River and entered the region bordering the Persian province of Taxila. Here he met the feared Indian Monarch Porus who, with 25,000 men and 200 elephants nearly did what the entire Persian Kingdom could not. After fierce fighting, however, Alexander was once more victorious. Porus surrendered and became an ally.

After an eight year campaign Alexander was now ruler of a massive empire. He was keen to push further west but his men were weary and intent on returning to their families. Reluctantly he complied with their wishes.

Alexander was a caring military leader. He would visit his men after the battle, examining their wounds and praising them for their valiant efforts. He would also arrange extravagant funerals for the fallen. He would arrange games and contests for his men. The affection for their leader was what galvanized his troops.

Returning to Babylon Alexander assumed the role he had coveted for so long ? The great Conqueror. Eventually, however, he gave way to a licentious lifestyle of excessive drinking. He also gave way to fits of rage and paranoid suspicion. One night he even murdered his closest associate, Clitus, in a fit of rage. This act was to haunt for the remainder of his short life.

In June, 332 BC Alexander fell victim to malarial fever. He never recovered. The man who no man could defeat died on June 13, 323 BC. He was just 32 years and 8 months old.

Alexander's Greatness

Alexander took over the entire known world. This was a "great" achievement.

Remember that "great" is not a synonym for "good." We tend to use the word "great" with a clear positive connotation in modern colloquial speech, just as we might say something is "awesome" and mean it in a positive way. But that distracts from the real dictionary definitions of "awesome" and "great".

Alexander did take over the known world, and that WAS a great achievement. But he was also great because he mixed Greek, Persian, and Egyptian civilizations into a superior civilization called Hellenistic. He was great because he spread ideas and culture from Greece to India. His accomplishment did not last very long after he died, but the ideas and culture he brought together stayed together.

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because he conquered many countries

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Because he created a vast empire, but also because the influence of Greek culture remained long after Alexander's empire fell apart.

Alexander's Reign

Alexander III, more commonly known as Alexander the Great, reigned from 336 BC to 323 BC

Alexander the Great was Greek, his name Αλεξανοδρος means the protector. His father was Greek and he had a Greek name too. During these years Greece was a total of city countries and Macedonia (Μακεδονια) was one of them. At this city all the citizens were speaking Greek and they were believing at the Greek gods. Another prove of the Greek ID of this region is that citizens of this city were taking place to the Olympic games, a holy ceremony for the Greeks which was only for Greeks. Alexander the Great had as teacher the big Aristotle who was one of the greatest Greeks philosophers.

So Alexander the Great was the King of Greece

In our days the wide area that Macedonia had in history is used from some people to create problems and effect the stability between the country of Greece and the country of FYROM. This is happening because a small region of the ancient Macedonia is now a part of this small country. But history can't be written again.

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