Most Influential Man of Ancient Greece

Most Influential Man of Ancient Greece

Anastasia Nauman

History 101

Section 8

“The father of civilization”

Alexander, the young king of Macedonia, was the greatest military commander ever to lead an army into battle. There are obvious reasons to why Alexander has great after his first name. Throughout ancient Greek times he proved himself to be one of the most influential icons of his time and is deserving of his title as being the great.

The young king of Macedonia was born in 356 B.C, he was the son of Philip of Macedon who was also a well know and excellent Army General, while his mother was the princess of Epirus. Excellence and royalty ran through Alexander’s blood, so nothing less of greatness was expected from him. After his father’s death he took over the Macedonian throne at the young age of 20. Alexander quickly ordered his enemies to be executed. After executing his enemies he soon had to act outside Macedonia if he wanted to show that he can be even greater of a leader then his father was. Alexander had very big shoes to fill and he didn’t waste any time doing so. After Alexander’s father Philip’s death there was a lot of rebellion among the conquered nations and the Illyrians, Thracians, and Greeks saw a chance for independence. Alexander acted swiftly and forced his way into Greece despite the roads leading to the country being blocked by the Thessalians. As soon as he restored Macedonian rule in northern Greece, he began his journey to southern Greece and by the end the summer in 336 BC Greeks had no other choice but to acknowledge his authority and do as he said. Alexander also assembled forces in Greek cities in Corinth which also recognized him as their leader. This was only the begging of his goal of ruling the world. He started off with invading the Persian Empire but ended up coming back to the south. As a warning to any Greek cities of what may happen to them if they resisted his rules, he captured and demolished the...