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While Alexander worried that his father would leave him "no great or brilliant achievement to be displayed to the world", [222] he also downplayed his father's achievements to his companions. [221] Alexander's mother Olympia similarly had huge ambitions, and encouraged her son to believe it was his destiny to conquer the Persian Empire. [221]
Alexander Romance,14th century Armenian illuminated manuscript. In the third-century AD, a quantity of legendary and historical material about Alexander the Great coalesced into the production of a text known as the Alexander Romance. The text is pseudonymously attributed to Callisthenes, a court historian of Alexander the Great. For this ...
Olympias was portrayed by French actress Danielle Darrieux in the 1956 film Alexander the Great, a historical epic which starred Richard Burton as Alexander and Fredric March as his father. Olympias appears in Maurice Druon's 1960 novel Alexander the God. Olympias is a character in The Young Alexander the Great (1960) by Naomi Mitchison.
Alexander's handsome appearance and sincerity endeared him to the public, who supported the house of the Maccabees for the throne instead of the half-Jewish Herod. However, he became marked by a certain degree of vanity and a spirit of vindictiveness, which rendered him extremely unpopular with the partisans of Herod who began to fear retribution should he become King.
This book is a historical biography about Philip II of Macedon and his son Alexander the Great. The book covers the lives of both men, from Philip's rise to power in Macedonia to Alexander's death in Babylon, a period of 78 years. [5] Goldsworthy argues that Alexander's success and achievements wouldn't have been possible without Philip.
Alexander IV (Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος; 323– 309 BC), sometimes erroneously called Aegus in modern times, [3] was the posthumous son of Alexander the Great (Alexander III of Macedon) by his wife Roxana of Bactria. As his father's only surviving legitimate child, Alexander IV inherited the throne of the Macedonian Empire after him, however ...
The Palace of Aigai was built by Alexander the Great’s father, Phillip II, and completed in 336 B.C., officials said. Alexander was proclaimed king of Macedonia in the monumental complex that ...
Alexander was the second born son of Alexander and Glaphyra. [1] His oldest brother was called Tigranes [2] and had a younger unnamed sister. [3] His father Alexander was a Judean prince, of Jewish, Nabataean and Edomite descent and was a son of the King of Judea, Herod the Great and his wife Mariamne.