Modern Historians about Macedonia – Bernard Randall

 

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‘’yet in the thirteen years of his reign as king Alexander III of Macedon, he went from ruler of the leading state in Greece to conqueror of the biggest empire the world had ever seen.’’

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he believed himself to be the son of Zeus, the king of the Greek gods

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He made Egypt and the middle east parts of the greek world, and he initiated the spread of Greek ideas and philosophy far beyong Greece

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Where as the Athenians governed themselves as a democracy, Macedon was still ruled by a type of monarchy that had dissapeared from other greek city-states centuries before

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Alexander the Great: Macedonian King and Conqueror

Ancient Leaders Series

Leaders of ancient Greece

Bernard Randall

Professor Paul Cartledge on the ancient Macedonian language

 

Professor Paul Cartledge of the  University of Cambridge asserts that ancient Macedonian was a Greek dialect not easily understood by other Greeks

 

 

Alexander the Great

At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty and by twenty-six he had made himself master of the once mighty Persian Empire. By the time of his death, aged only thirty-three, in 323 BCE he was ruler of the known world and was being worshipped as a god by the Greeks, both at Babylon, where he died, and further west, among the Greek cities of the Asiatic seaboard. The fruit of a lifetime's scholarship and meticulous research, this is an outstanding biography of one of the most remarkable rulers in history.

 (From the publisher)  

Martin Heidegger in Griechenland(1962)