Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.E.)

Alexander of Macedon (ruled 336-323 BCE), known to history as Alexander the Great, ascended to power when Philip II of Macedon was assassinated in 361 BCE. The kingdom passed to his 20 year old son, Alexander, who rapidly consolidated his power and then led a united Greece in a war of revenge and conquest against the Persians. In 334 BCE, he crushed the Persian army and conquered Syria and Phoenicia. By 331, he had occupied Egypt and founded the seaport he named Alexandria. The Egyptian priests of Amun recognized him as the son of a god, an idea he readily adopted.

In 331 BCE, Alexander reached the Persian capital of Persepolis, where his troops accidentally burned down the palace. He continued east until 326 BCE, when he reached the western part of India (now present-day Pakistan). Finally his troops refused to go any farther. On the way home, Alexander died of fever in 323 BCE. He was only 33 years old.

Fred S. Kleiner, ed, Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Global History, Fourteenth edition, (Wasworth Cenage Learning: Boston), 2013.

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