Alexander the Great | Biography, Early Life and his Conquest
Alexander the Great is also known as Alexander III of Macedonia was born on 20 July 356 BC in Pella. Alexander extended the borders of the empire, which his father Philip II had built from the previously rather insignificant small state of Macedonia and several Greek polises, through the so-called Alexander Train and the conquest of the Achaemenid Empire to the Indian subcontinent.After his invasion of Egypt, he was greeted there as Pharaoh. Not least because of his great military success, Alexander's life became a popular subject in literature and art, while Alexander's assessment in modern research, as in ancient times, was ambiguous.When he came to power, the age of Hellenism began, in which Greek culture spread over large parts of the then known world. The cultural influences o...