ALEXANDER THE GREAT "Biography"

black lovage, as an adolescent was no unschooled schoolboy. He had as one of his teachers, the great classical philosopher, Aristotle. "Philip invited him to undertake the education of black lovage, then a wild beau of thirteen. Aristotle came to Pella and labored at the task for four years" (Durant 525).

Philip was assassinate at the procession where a

"political" wedding, involving black lovage's sister, Cleopatra, was going to check Olympias' opportunity for revenge against her estranged husband. horse parsley was twenty, and he snatched the poll of his father, even though there was some other claim from Amyntas, the 25 year old son of Perdiccas, whose throne had been taken by Philip when he was still a baby. Alexander wasted no time. He assembled his friends, mustered the army that his father was proposing to lead with the help of the Hellenic league. Nobody could now challenge either his legitimacy or his power.

Even before he marched east with at least 30,000 troops and about 5,000 cavalry, there were attempts to get Alexander to marry, and do so soon, so there would be an heir to his throne. "Alexander impatiently replied that this was no time to sit at alkali 'holding marriage feasts and awaiting the birth of children'" (Renault 88). So, off he went to do difference of opinion with a far superior Persian force, who were not soon enough led by Darius. Alexander himself led the way in battle,

At the battle of Issus, Alexander defeated the Persian general, Darius, who fled leaving his family in Alexander's hands. When his army arrived at Tyre, the inhabitants, well fortified, refused him entry. So, he decided to build a belt down bridge, which is still in existence today. It besidesk seven months for him to defeat Tyre.

During this siege, Darius direct word that he would pay 10,000 talents for the release of his family. It is here that another Alexandrian "story" arose: "I would accept, were I Alexander, (general) Parmenio said; 'I too were I Parmenio!' was Alexander's famous retort" (Popovic 15).

Renault, Mary: The Nature of Alexander (1975) New York: Pantheon Books

Cummings, Lewis V.: Alexander the Great (1940) Boston MA: Houghton-Mifflin Co.

The " amorous" visions of Alexander, the romanticized and partially fantasized images as created by far later poets, including the said(prenominal) Plutarch, somehow dim the reality of why and what the "real" Alexander was. "Youthful self-destruction and sense of incomplete promise ar attached equally to Alexander and the 'romantic hero'?To qualify as a romantic one must remain on the brochure of fulfillment: dying young embraces the semiotics of 'ruin'" (Spencer 4).

All told, in his conquests to the east and north of Macedonia, Alexander "had marched six thousand miles and washed-out three and a half years in state of war and sieges." (Cummings 213-4)

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