BIOGRAPHY

Biography on Alexander the Great

Biography on Alexander the Great

With his Macedonian forces Alexander subdued and joined the Greeks and reestablished the Corinthian League after nearly a 100 years of warfare between the Greek city-states next the Peloponnesian War. Thus Alexander set the stage for his conquest of the Persian Empire, inspired both by individual aspiration and by the Greeks' centuries-old abhorrence for their perennial Asian foes since the Persian Wars. His crusades were not only conflicts of liberation of Greek colonies in Asia Minor but furthermore revenge for Persian depredations in Greece in years past. Within 11 years Alexander's domain extended from the Balkans to the Himalayas, and it encompassed most of the east Mediterranean nations, Mesopotamia, and PersiaHis legacy was a fragmented domain, but he had motivated a new Hellenistic age of cosmopolitan culture.

Alexander was born in 356 B.C. to King Philip II of Macedon and Queen Olympias, the female child of Neoptolemus, King of the Molossians (Barnett, 1997). Alexander's sister was born the next year, and the two young children increased up at the regal court in Pella. Since his paternal grandmother, Eurydice, was an Illyrian, Alexander was scarcely Macedonian in body-fluid but apparently so in temperament. Of mean size, he had deep-set dark eyes which glowed out under a hefty brow, and a mass of dark, twisted hair. As a youth, Alexander seldom glimpsed his dad, who was entangled in long infantry crusades and many love affairs. Olympias, a furious and overly possessive mother, accordingly overridden her son's early years and topped up him with a deep resentment of his dad and a powerful disapprove for women and wine, in which his dad very powerfully indulged.

One of Alexander's first educators was Leonidas, a relation of Olympias, who laboured to curtail the uncontrollable and defiant boy. Philip had chartered Leonidas to train the youth in arithmetic, horsemanship, and archery. Alexander's very well liked tutor was the Acarnian Lysimachus, who developed a game whereby Alexander impersonated the champion Achilles. This very satisfied Olympias, for her family asserted the champion as an ancestor. In Alexander's youthful brain, Achilles became the epitome of the aristocratic warrior, and Alexander modeled himself after this champion of Homer's Iliad (Barnett, 1997).

The learning at Mieza completed in 340. While Philip campaigned contrary to Byzantium, he left the 16-year-old prince as regent in Pella. Philip's general Antipater warily but powerfully suggested Alexander, but other generals looked on Alexander as a pawn, more effortlessly organised than Philip. Within a year Alexander attempted his first expedition contrary to the Thracian tribes, and in 338 he directed the Companion Cavalry and assisted his dad shatter the Athenian and Theban forces at Chaeronea.

In the summer of 336 at the very vintage Macedonian capital of Aegai, Alexander's sister wed her uncle Alexander, the Molossian king. In the carnival parade Philip was assassinated by a juvenile Macedonian noble, Pausanias. The cause for the proceed was not ever discovered.

Alexander searched the acclamation of the Macedonian armed detachment for his tender for kingship, and ...