Alexander the Great: King of Macedonia

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Credits:
Host - Simon Whistler
Author - Steve Theunissen
Producer - Jennifer Da Silva
Executive Producer - Shell Harris

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Source/Further reading:

Thomas R. Martin: Alexander the Great
Henry Freeman: Alexander the Great
Sean Patrick: Alexander the Great; The Macedonian Who Conquered the World

[Motov]

Me at 16: *playing war games*

Alexander at 16: *Actually playing war games*

[tamaramagdalene]

Alexander the Great would not buy SquareSpace. He will conquer it and call it Alexander's Space then kick you out of Biographics and call it Mine.

[imperatorglaber]

Pretty cool fact. By the time Alexanders army reached India, some of his men had been in 50-100 battles. Some members of the elite silver shields were in their late 50's. Hard to imagine such grizzled veterans

[lorrainesantos]

I loved the fact that Alexander named a city after his horse

[mikep]

Asia: exists
Alexander the great: *it's free real estate*

[MrPoupard]

"Who's your teacher?" "Bloke called Aristotle"." Is he any good?" "Yeh … I s'pose .."

[matheusmterra]

Alexander's last words were really badass and are what broke the empire. When asked about the matter of succession, he answered only "To the strongest".

[scottpeterson]

The story of Alexander and that knot beautifully symbolizes his direct approach to problem solving 😎

[richardkuduk]

“When Alexander saw the breath of his domain, he wept for there were no more worlds to conquer”

[jasonrubio]

" I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion." - Alexander the Great

[RainbowManification]

If he had lived another 30 years, we would all be speaking Greek.

[lindltaylor]

Educated by Aristotle student of Socrates student of Plato, conquered the largest army in history (at that point), created one of the largest empire (at that point), inspired great leaders from Ceasar to Napoleon and never lost a battle all in the space of a decade... He truely is one of the greatest

[mitchelvalentino]

Disappointed you didn’t mention the legendary meeting between Alexander and the philosopher Diogenes of Sinope.

[trey]

With Bucephalus, he didn’t manhandle the horse into submission like was described in this video. He recognized the horse was afraid of his shadow and made him face the sun and calmed him down for 10 or so minutes before jumping on.

[Chameleon]

Alexander executed half of his prisoners?

Perfectly balanced, as all things should be...

[ignitionfrn]

1:00 - Chapter 1 - Early years
3:30 - Chapter 2 - Rising to the challenge
5:00 - Chapter 3 - Family challenges
6:30 - Chapter 4 - King of macedonia
11:55 - Mid roll ads
13:20 - Chapter 5 - The gordian knot
16:50 - Chapter 6 - Conquest of babylon
18:45 - Chapter 7 - India
20:35 - Chapter 8 - Struck down

[Wkumar]

Alexander poses a challenge to those of us living comfortably in the 21st century. Should we see him a great hero who overcame the many obstacles thrown his way? Or, perhaps, should we view him as a tyrant willing to sacrifice thousands of lives for his own glory? Either way, Alexander is arguably one of the most fascinating men to have ever lived.

[billaros]

Some say that he should be called Alexander the conqueror instead of Great. Many men were conquerors. Caesar, Genghis Khan, Suleiman, Napoleon. Alexander was Great. He didn't name himself great like Napoleon or some little known Prussian and Russian rulers. History gave him that name.
Plus the word great means much more in Greek. Μέγας Αλέξανδρος meaning that no one can be greater, no one can achieve more. A king who could lay low and leave the battle to his army while spitting orders. Instead he fought in the first line, in phalanx or on his horse, the Greek way.Did so much in 33 years, most "conquerors" would need 1000 lifetimes.

Btw the Persians used Greek mercenaries all the time. The reason for that is that the Persian soldiers were ill trained and pretty ignorant of battle.
Imagine being a persian soldier, having heard stories about your ancestors trying to invade Greece and being slaughtered. Then you see 40.000 Greeks with 6 meters spears marching in perfect phalanx ready to take revenge. Poor guys must had been shitting their pants.

[suparnamaiti.]

The Battle of Hidaspus, in which Alexander faught against King Puru(Porus) is a significant milestone in Indian History. When Puru was defeated and imprisoned after fighting valiantly, Alexander asked him how should he, the new slave be treated by the great emperor. Puru replied, like how one king should treat another king. This fearless reply impressed Alexander so much that he fred Puru and gave back his land.

[alaylaburkhart]

Alexander's Dad to Aristotle: Thanks for dealing with my son I'll rebuild your home so you're indebted to me for life.
Aristotle: Cool thanks fam.