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The death of Alexander the Great and subsequent related events have been the subjects of debates. According to a Babylonian astronomical diary, Alexander died in the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon between the evening of 10 June and the evening of 11 June 323 BC, [ 1] at the age of 32. Macedonians and local residents wept at the news of ...
Alexander III of Macedon(Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος, romanized: Alexandros; 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), most commonly known as Alexander the Great,[c]was a king of the ancient Greekkingdom of Macedon. [d]He succeeded his father Philip IIto the throne in 336 BC at the age of 20 and spent most of his ruling years ...
Hephaestion. General, 2nd in command. Hephaestion ( Ancient Greek: Ἡφαιστίων Hephaistíon; c. 356 BC – October 324 BC), son of Amyntor, was an ancient Macedonian nobleman of probable " Attic or Ionian extraction" [ 3] and a general in the army of Alexander the Great. He was "by far the dearest of all the king's friends; he had been ...
Historiography of Alexander the Great. There are numerous surviving ancient Greek and Latin sources on Alexander the Great, king of Macedon, as well as some Asian texts. The five main surviving accounts are by Arrian, Plutarch, Diodorus Siculus, Quintus Curtius Rufus, and Justin. [ 1] In addition to these five main sources, there is the Metz ...
The Battle of Gaugamela ( / ˌɡɔːɡəˈmiːlə / GAW-gə-MEE-lə; Ancient Greek: Γαυγάμηλα, romanized : Gaugámēla, lit. 'the Camel's House'), also called the Battle of Arbela ( Ἄρβηλα, Árbēla ), took place in 331 BC between the forces of the Army of Macedon under Alexander the Great and the Persian Army under King Darius III.
Alexander ( Greek: Αλέξανδρος, romanized: Aléxandros; 1 August 1893 – 25 October 1920) [ a] was King of Greece from 11 June 1917 until his death in 1920. The second son of King Constantine I, Alexander was born in the summer palace of Tatoi on the outskirts of Athens. He succeeded his father in 1917, during World War I, after the ...
Alan Mathison Turing OBE FRS ( / ˈtjʊərɪŋ /; 23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954) was an English mathematician, computer scientist, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. [ 5] He was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation ...
Alexander IV was the son of Alexander the Great (a Macedonian Greek) and Alexander's wife Roxana (a Sogdian). [4] [5] [6] He was the grandson of Philip II of Macedon.Because Roxana was pregnant when Alexander the Great died on 11 June 323 BC and the sex of the baby was unknown, there was dissension in the Macedonian army regarding the order of succession.