Alexander the Great Before Christopher Columbus discovered America and we gained Barack Obama as the first black president, historiography discovered the classical age and much more. The classical age was the time period where the Greeks were advancing their politics and culture, but the Persian Empire kept trying to destroy them. The Greeks did not like to be ruled by non - Greeks, but when the Persians expanded they conquered some Greeks causing conflict between the two until Alexander the Great
the empire of Alexander the Great. Macedonia is located to the north-east of Greece, its inhabitants called themselves the descendants of Macedonia, the son of Zeus. During the reign of the Macedonian king Philip II of his country has become a military power, and after the victory over the Persians, he managed to unite under his command Greece and Macedonia. His son Alexander, immediately after his father's death in 336 BC. e. proceeded to military conquests. Which facts of Alexander the Great's life
biographies and moral treatise, in which influenced by his experiences of travelling around the Greek cities and Roman cities. Therefore, in his writing about Alexander –Life of Alexander, Plutarch is much more interested in analyzing evidences that found in historical events, which emphasized the personality and characteristics of Alexander, rather than to justify the historical events. On the other hand, Arrian, whose main purpose of writing about
history, Alexander the Great was born in 356 B.C. in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia. The son of Philip of Macedon, who was an excellent Army General and organizer. His mother was Olympias, princess of Epirus. Alexander deserves the iconic position he has been given in history because he was able to conquer the Persian Empire due to his outstanding military techniques and his ability to integrate with the culture and government of the people he conquered. As a teenager Alexander started learning
of Macedon is the Macedonian king, who reigned from 359 BC. Philip went down in history more as a father of Alexander the Great, although carried out the most difficult, the initial objective of strengthening the Macedonian state and the actual unification of Greece under the League of Corinth. Later his son took advantage of a strong, hardened in combat army formed by Philip, to create his vast, but quickly collapsed empire. Philip went to Greece not as a conqueror, but at the invitation of the