Alexander the Great(Alexander III) (356-323 BC)
"My son, ask for thyself another kingdom, for that which I leave is too small for thee." (King Philip of Macedonia, 339 BC)
From victory to victory, from triumph to triumph Alexander created an empire that marked history and brought him eternal glory. Alexander brought Greek ideas, culture and mentality to the conquered countries and assured expansion and domination of the Hellenistic Culture which together with the Roman Civilization and Christianity presents the fundaments of what is now called Western Civilization.
-Born in Pella, Macedonia, 356 BC, parents were Olympias and Philip II (legends of Alex having gods for parents: Zeus and Olympias)
Olympias supposedly is an ancestor of Achilles, While Philip's is Hercules
12 yrs old: only child able to tame horse Buecephalus(Ox head), who would later carry him in all his conquests until his death in India(city of Buecephala)
13-16 yrs old taught by Aristotle
340 BC......
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