Alexander the Great returned from the area of modern India and Pakistan to Babylonia, where he became ill suddenly, and died at age 33. Alexander the Great may have undone the knot by the simple expedience of slashing through it with a sword. The same "they" said that the person who untied the Gordian Knot would rule all of Asia. This is the fabled knot tied by the father of the legendary ass-eared King Midas.
They say that when Alexander the Great was in Gordium (modern Turkey), in 333 B.C., he undid the Gordian Knot. Herakles, son of Alexander's mistress Barsine,īoth children were killed before they reached adulthood.his father Philip was assassinated, and Alexander the Great became ruler of Macedonia.Īlexander had potential rivals executed in order to secure the throne.Īlexander the Great had 3 probable wives however that term is interpreted: Alexander Succeeds His Father to the Throne.In August 338 Alexander showed his mettle helping Philip win the Battle of Chaeronea. Alexander put down the revolt and renamed their city Alexandropolis. During Alexander's regency, the Maedi of northern Macedonia revolted. In 340 B.C., while father Philip went off to fight rebels, Alexander was made regent in Macedonia. The Promise Shown When Alexander Was Regent.Later, when his beloved horse died, Alexander renamed a city in India for Bucephalus.
(Hephaestion is thought to have been educated along with Alexander.)ĭuring his youth, Alexander tamed the wild horse Bucephalus. There are other contenders for the father of Alexander, but they're mush less believable.Īlexander was tutored by Leonidas (possibly his uncle) and the great Greek philosopher Aristotle. Several conquerors at the time had fallen at the gates (Punjab) of India and Alexander was one of them. Olympias was not the only wife of Philip and there was much conflict between Alexander's parents. After conquering the Achaemenid Empire of Persia, the Macedonian. One could argue that they were the response to Alexander's conquests, representing the new discoveries.Alexander was born around July 19/20, 356 B.C.Īlexander was the son of King Philip II of Macedon and Olympias, daughter of King Neoptolemus I of Epirus. He also became the king of Persia, Babylon and Asia, and created Macedonian colonies in Iran. There is no hint that these maps were an inheritance from Aristotle. « Dann lebe wohl, du arme Altertumswissenschaft, denn du sinkst erneut in Scholastik ! ».ĥ. Hamilton's characterisation of his account as « rather speculative » (Hamilton, 18) and demanding whether we should abjure rational thought whenever we do not run nose first upon explicit textual evidence. 70) admitted with outraged passion, responding to Merlan, « Isocrates, Aristotle and Alexander the Great » Historia,ģ (1954) : 60-81, esp. 87- 9, an exposition largely unchanged from his Alexander der Grosse : Ingenium and Macht (Graz, 1949) : 66-77.ģ. SCHACHERMEYR, Alexander der Grosse : das Problem seiner Persönlichkeit und seines Wirkens (Sb. CHROUST, Aristotle (London, 1973) : 125- 132, denied that there was any association.Ģ. Hamilton, Plutarch Alexander (Oxford, 1969) : 16-20. Ehrenberg, Alexander and the Greeks (Oxford, 1938) : 62-102 J.R. SEIBERT, Alexander der Grosse (Darmstadt, 1972) : 72-ģ. World geography, particularly the geography ofġ. However, Schachermeyr's picture despite its rococo excrescences has some intrinsic plausibility. 286 B.C.) 5and cannot readily be retrojected half a century to serve as an inspiration for the young Alexander. The world maps displayed in the lecture halls of the Peripatos, for instance, are only attested in the will of Theophrastus (c. This geographical grounding is based on speculation, 4 some of it misplaced. 2 In addition to the studies in ethics and politics, which Plutarch infers took place, 3 Schachermeyr hypothesised wide-ranging instruction in geography which (he alleged) formed Alexander's world-view and fuelled his lifelong curiosity for exploration. I would like to know the input of some historical juggernauts on thus topic. It was always by impression that when Alexander defeated King Porus at the battle if the River Hydaspes Porus submitted to his rule. l It inspired one of Fritz Schachermeyr's most rhapsodic passages in which he traced a journey of imagination through the curriculum devised for the young prince at Mieza. Recently I got into a disagreement with a fellow classmate as to whether Alexander the Great conquered India, or what we considered India to be at that time. ARISTOTLE, INDIA AND THE ALEXANDER HISTORIANSįew subjects have aroused so much speculation on so little evidence as Aristotle's relations with Alexander the Great.
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