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1 day ago · Alexander the Great had one legitimate child, a son named Alexander IV of Macedon. Alexander IV was born in 323 BC to Alexander’s wife Roxana, shortly after Alexander’s death. The Macedonian king is also purported to have had an illegitimate son called Heracles of Macedon by Barsine, daughter of Satrap Artabazus of Phrygia, but historians remain unsure whether Heracles really was a son of Alexander.
4 days ago · The Battle of Gaugamela was one of Alexander’s finest battles. Afterward, the loot gathered by Parmenion included 4,000 talents, Darius’ personal bow, and nearly a dozen war elephants. Alexander now controlled half of the Achaemenid Empire. The only disappointment for the Macedonians was the failure to capture Darius.
4 days ago · Alexander the Great was allegedly a great admirer of both theatre and music. He was especially fond of the plays by Classical Athenian tragedians Aeschylus , Sophocles , and Euripides , whose works formed part of a proper Greek education for his new eastern subjects alongside studies in the Greek language, including the epics of Homer . [293]
3 days ago · Historically known as Nebuchadnezzar the Great, [9] [10] he is typically regarded as the empire's greatest king. [8] [11] [12] Nebuchadnezzar remains famous for his military campaigns in the Levant, for his construction projects in his capital, Babylon, including the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and for the role he plays in Jewish history. [8] .
1 day ago · Anthony Everitt’s Alexander the Great; His Life and Mysterious Death and Philip Freeman’s Alexander the Great are less critical of sources and are both rollicking good reads, almost novelistic. In fairness, I should note that Hugh Bowden, who says that this incident is “one of the most frequently told stories about Alexander” (88), disputes that it ever happened at all ( 2014 , 89).
2 days ago · With Alexander the Great’s conquest in 333 bce, Damascus became part of the Hellenistic world for almost a thousand years. The Aramaean quarters coexisted with a new Greek settlement, which followed a Hippodamian, or orthogonal, plan.
2 days ago · Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored his son Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC. He established a library in the Lyceum, which helped him to produce many of his hundreds of books on papyrus scrolls .
