King of Macedonia and conqueror of Achaemenid Persia (356–323 BC)
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He took the throne at 20, swept through the Persian Empire undefeated, and by 30 had built an empire stretching from Greece to India—then died in Babylon before he could go further.
Born in Pella and tutored by Aristotle until 16, Alexander succeeded his father Philip II in 336 BC and immediately crushed resistance in the Balkans before destroying Thebes. He launched his invasion of Persia in 334 BC and broke the Achaemenid Empire through victories at Issus and Gaugamela, overthrowing Darius III and claiming the entire realm. He pushed into India in 326 BC and defeated King Porus at the Hydaspes, but his troops mutinied at the Beas River and forced the turn home. He died in 323 BC at 32 in Babylon, the city he'd meant to make his capital, ending plans for Arabia and trigg…
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What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse better than others do.
Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another.
If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury.
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