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Who was Alexander the Great?

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Alexander the Great, a Macedonian king, conquered the eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, the Middle East, and parts of Asia in a remarkably short period of time. His empire ushered in significant cultural changes in the lands he conquered and changed the course of the region’s history.

The Alexander Mosaic, also known as the Battle of Issus Mosaic, is a Roman floor mosaic originally from the House of the Faun in Pompeii.

Until the age of 16, Alexander was tutored by Aristotle.

Aristotle teaching young Alexander, engraving by Charles Laplante, c. 1866

Alexander married three times: to Roxana of Bactria, Stateira, and Parysatis, daughter of Ochus.

Roxana was a Sogdian or a Bactrian princess who Alexander the Great married after defeating Darius, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire, and invading Persia.

He fathered at least one child, Alexander IV of Macedon, born by Roxana shortly after his death in 323 BC.

There is speculation that Stateira could have been pregnant when she died; if so, she and her child played no part in the succession battles which ensued after his death.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

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