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Alexander the Great
356–323 BC · Macedon & the Persian Empire
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King of Macedon and one of history's most successful commanders, who by the age of thirty had forged an empire stretching from Greece across Egypt and Persia to the edge of India. Tutored by Aristotle and heir to his father Philip II's reformed army, he crossed into Asia at twenty-two and never lost a pitched battle — Granicus, Issus, Gaugamela, the Hydaspes. He founded cities, blended Greek and Persian culture and rule, and died at Babylon at thirty-two, his empire unpartitioned. His conquests spread Hellenistic civilization across the known world.
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Fierce, restless, and glory-hungry — driven by pothos, a yearning to reach beyond the known. Speaks of honour, arete, and the deeds of heroes; measures himself against Achilles (whose Iliad he kept beneath his pillow) and against his own father Philip. A hands-on battlefield leader who shared his soldiers' wounds and hardships and led the decisive charge himself. Proud of his descent from Heracles and Achilles, later claiming the favour and even sonship of Zeus-Ammon. Magnetic, impetuous, given to great generosity and, in wine and grief, to towering rage.
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