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Alexander the Great - Alexander's character: Encyclopedia - Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great (in Greek Μέγας Αλέξανδρος, transliterated Megas Alexandros; born in Pella, Macedon, in July, 356 BC, died in Babylon, on June 10, 323 BC), King of Macedon 336–323 BC, is arguably the most successful military commander in world history, conquering most of the known world before his death. Alexander is also known in the Zoroastrian Middle Persian work Arda Wiraz Nāmag as "the accursed Alexander" due to his conquest of the ...

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Alexander the Great - Alexander's legend in non-Western sources

Alexander the Great - Alexander's character: Encyclopedia II - Alexander the Great - Alexander's character Modern opinion on Alexander has run the gamut from the idea that he believed he was on a divinely-inspired mission to unite the human race, to the view that he was a megalomaniac bent on world domination. Such views tend to be anachronistic, however, and the sources allow for a variety of interpretations. Much about Alexander's personality and aims remains enigmatic. Alexander is remembered as a legendary hero in Europe and much of both Southwest Asia and Central Asia, where he is known as Iskander or Iskandar Zulkarnain ...

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Alexander the Great - Alexander's character: Encyclopedia - Alexander of Hales

Alexander Hales (also Halensis, Alensis, Halesius, Alesius; called Doctor Irrefragabilis and Theologorum Monarcha) was a scholastic theologian. He was born at Hales, Gloucestershire, England, and died in Paris on August 21, 1245. He was educated in the monastery at Hales, studied and lectured at Paris, acquired great fame as a teacher in theology, and entered the Franciscan order in 1222. Alexander was the first to write a commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, before him theolog ...

Alexander the Great - Alexander's character: Encyclopedia - Alexander Severus

Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexandrus (October 1, 208- March 18?, 235), commonly called Alexander Severus, Roman emperor from 222 to 235, was born at Arca Caesarea in Palestine. His father, Gessius Marcianus, held office more than once as an imperial procurator; his mother, Julia Mamaea, was the daughter of Julia Maesa and the aunt of Elagabalus (also called "Heliogabalus"). His original name was Bassianus, but he changed it in 221 when his grandmother, Maesa, persuaded the emperor Elagabalus to adopt his cousin as successo ...

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Alexander the Great - Alexander's character: Encyclopedia - Plutarch

Mestrius Plutarchus (ca. 46- 127) was a Greek historian, biographer, and essayist. Born in the small town of Chaeronea, in the Greek region known as Boeotia, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Claudius, Plutarch travelled widely in the Mediterranean world, including twice to Rome. Due to his parents' wealth, after 67, Plutarchus was able to study philosophy, rhetoric, and mathematics at the Academy of Athens. He had a number of influential friends, including Soscius Senecio and Fundanus, both important Senato ...

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Alexander the Great - Alexander's character: Encyclopedia - Flora Robson

Dame Flora Robson (March 28, 1902 – July 7, 1984) was a British actress renowned as one of the great character players and one of Britain's theatrical grandes dames. She was born in South Shields, England and made her stage debut in 1921 at the age of 19. Lacking the glamorous looks of a leading lady, she specialised in character roles, notably that of Queen Elizabeth I in both Fire over England (1937) and The Sea Hawk (1940). At the age of 32, Robson played the old Empress Elizabeth in A ...

Alexander the Great - Alexander's character: Encyclopedia - Pope Alexander VI

Alexander VI, (Rodrigo Borgia) (January 1, 1431 – August 18, 1503) pope (1492-1503), is the most memorable of the secular popes of the Renaissance. He was born at Xàtiva, València, Spain, and his father's surname was Lanzol or Llançol; that of his mother's family, Borgia or Borja, was assumed by him on the elevation of his maternal uncle to the papacy as Callixtus III (April 8, 1455). Pope Alexander VI - Education and election. He studied law at Bologna and after his uncle's election he w ...

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Alexander the Great - Alexander's character: Encyclopedia - Alexander II of Russia

Alexander (Aleksandr) II (Russian: Александр II Николаевич) (April 17, 1818–March 13, 1881) was the Emperor (Czar) of Russia from March 2, 1855 until his assassination. He was also the Grand Duke of Finland. He was born the eldest son of Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia, daughter of Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. His early life gave little indication of his potential, and up to the time of his accession in 1855, few imagined that he would be known to poster ...

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Alexander the Great - Alexander's character: Encyclopedia - Chronicles of Prydain

The Chronicles of Prydain is a five volume series of children's fantasy novels by Lloyd Alexander. The stories follow the adventures of a young man named Taran, who has been awarded the honorific of Assistant Pig-Keeper but dreams of being a great hero, and his companions Princess Eilonwy, Fflewddur Fflam the wandering bard and king, and a creature called Gurgi. The novels are inspired by Welsh mythology, particularly stories of the Mabinogion. They are not, however, simple retellings of those myths - a point Alexander himself ...

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Alexander the Great - Alexander's character: Encyclopedia - Alexander III of Russia

Alexander (Aleksandr) III (Russian: Александр III Александрович) (b.March 10, 1845 – d.November 1, 1894) was the Emperor of Russia from March 14, 1881 until his death. Alexander III of Russia - Principles. Alexander was the second son of Alexander II and Marie of Hesse and by Rhine. In natural disposition he bore little resemblance to his soft-hearted, liberal minded father, and still less to his refined, philosophic, sentimental, chivalrous, yet cunning grand-uncle Alexander I, who ...

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Alexander the Great - Alexander's character: Encyclopedia - Bard Soviet Union

The term bard (барды) came to be used in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s (and continues to be used in Russia today) for popular poets and singers who wrote songs outside the Soviet establishment. Bard poetry differs from other poetry mainly in the fact that it is sung along with a simple guitar melody as opposed to being spoken. Another difference is that this form of poetry focuses less on style and more on meaning. This means that fewer stylistic devices are used, and the poetry often takes the form of narrative. What separ ...

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Alexander the Great - Alexander's character: Encyclopedia - Alexander von Humboldt

Friedrich Heinrich Alexander, Baron von Humboldt, (September 14, 1769, Berlin–May 6, 1859, Berlin), was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt. Alexander von Humboldt - Introduction. Alexander von Humboldt - Brief description of Humboldt's travels. Between 1799 and 1804, von Humboldt travelled South and Central America, exploring and describing it from a scientific point of view for the ...

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Alexander the Great - Alexander's character: Encyclopedia - Alexander Wedderburn 1st Earl of Rosslyn

Alexander Wedderburn, 1st Earl of Rosslyn (February 13, 1733–January 2, 1805), Lord Chancellor of Great Britain, was the eldest son of Peter Wedderburn (a lord of session as Lord Chesterhall), and was born in East Lothian. He acquired the rudiments of his education at Dalkeith, and in his fourteenth year matriculated at the university of Edinburgh. It was from the first his desire to practise at the English bar, though in deference to his father's wishes he qualified as an advocate at Edinburgh, in 1754, but entered himself a ...

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Alexander the Great - Alexander's character: Encyclopedia - Mauryan Empire

The Mauryan Empire was India's first great unified empire. It lasted from 321 to 185 BCE, and was ruled by the Mauryan dynasty. At its height it ruled virtually all of northern and central India, Pakistan , much of Afghanistan and a small part of Iran (Baluchistan). Archaeologically, it coincides with the Northern Black Polished Ware (NBPW) period. Mauryan Empire - Formative period. When Alexander the Great conquered the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent in 326 BCE, he allied with king Ambhi of ...

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Alexander the Great - Alexander's character: Encyclopedia - Polyphemus

Polyphemus (transliterated as Polyphemos in Robert Fitzgerald's translation), a character in Greek Mythology, is a Cyclops, the one-eyed son of Poseidon and Thoosa. He also plays a pivotal role in Homer's Odyssey. Polyphemus - Polyphemus in Homer's Odyssey. In the story of Homer's Odyssey, a scouting party led by the Trojan War hero Odysseus lands on the Island of the Cyclopes and ventures upon a large cave. They enter cave and proceed to feast on some food they find ther ...

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Alexander the Great - Alexander's character: Encyclopedia - Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was an American politician, statesman, journalist, lawyer, and soldier. One of the United States' most prominent and brilliant early constitutional lawyers, he was an influential delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention and the principal author of the Federalist Papers, which successfully defended the U.S. Constitution to skeptical New Yorkers. He also put the new United States of America onto a sound economic footing as its first and most influential Secretary of t ...

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Alexander the Great - Alexander's character: Encyclopedia II - Alexander in the Qur'an Theory - Dhul-Qarnayn in the Qur'an

Very little is written about Dhul-Qarnayn in the original sources of Islam, but he features prominently in the Qur'an, the sacred scripture believed by Muslims to have been revealed by God to Muhammad. He is commonly regarded as one amongst the prophets of Islam, but does not feature nearly as prominently in the Qur'an as prophets such as Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other major Biblical characters. For this reason, there is uncertainty in Islam as to whether he is a prophet of Islam or only a person of power who was favored by God. The story of ...

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