Arrian says that Alexander's greatness is worthy of praise and glory, and should be known by future generations.

As Andrew Chugg says, "... it is surely incredible that Alexander's reaction to Hephaestion's death could indicate anything other than the closest relationship imaginable.

Plutarch says "... Alexander's grief was uncontrollable ..." and adds that he ordered many signs of mourning, notably that the manes and tails of all horses should be shorn, the demolition of the battlements of the neighbouring cities, and the banning of flutes and every other kind of music.

Athenaeus also says that after Alexander's death Ptolemy married Thaïs, who bore him three children.

Edwards says, Alexander's association with two horns and with the building of the gate against Gog and Magog occurs much earlier than the Quran and persists in the beliefs of all three of these religions Christianity and Islam.

Also during the third season, Fred Astaire played Alistair Mundy, Alexander's father, also a master gentleman-thief, who says bemusedly, at the start of each episode in which he appears, " I've heard of stealing from the government, but for the government?

In an inductive analysis of the historical information over Sirras, through an a posteriori argument, Elias Kapetanopoulos, a Greek historian, also says that Sirras must have been a Lyncestian, not an Illyrian, as Eurydice as well .. Ian Worthington makes a convincing case for her Lyncestian ancestry, stating that while some dispute her ethnicity thinking her father Sirrhas may have been an Illyrian, " However, this is unlikely in light of a comment that Attalus made at the wedding of Phillip in 337, intended as a sluron Alexander's legitimacy, for his mother was from Epirus .".

Alexander's marriage with Henry's illegitimate daughter Sybilla de Normandy may have occurred as early as 1107, or as at late as 1114.

According to Diogenes Laertius, in response to Alexander's claim to have been the son of Zeus-Ammon, Anaxarchus pointed to his bleeding wound and remarked, " See the blood of a mortal, not ichor, such as flows from the veins of the immortal gods.

While still a deacon under Alexander's care, he seems to have been brought for a while into close relations with some of the solitaries of the Egyptian desert, and in particular with the Anthony the Great, whose life he is said to have written.

Alexander the Great is reputed to have crucified 2000 survivors from his siege of the Phoenician city of Tyre, as well as the doctor who unsuccessfully treated Alexander's friend Hephaestion.

Some historians have also conjectured that Alexander crucified Callisthenes, his official historian and biographer, for objecting to Alexander's adoption of the Persian ceremony of royal adoration.

Even if the king was not accountable for his management of the kingdom's entries, he may have felt responsible to defend his administration on certain occasions: Arrian tells us that during the mutiny of Alexander's soldiers at Opis in 324 BC, Alexander detailed the possessions of his father at his death to prove he had not abused his charge.

During Alexander ’ s captivity James attempted to split Clann Dòmhnall — Alexander's uncle John Mór was approached by an agent of the king to take the clan leadership but his refusal to have any dealings with the king while his nephew was held prisoner led to John Mór's attempted arrest and death.

With his death, any plans the court of Antigonus may have had of reuniting Alexander's empire came to an end.

The significance of this Serapsi in the Hellenic psyche, due to its involvement in Alexander's death, may have also contributed to the choice of Osiris-Apis as the chief Ptolemaic god.

After Alexander's death he was again expelled, and took refuge with Ptolemy in Egypt, where he appears to have met with a somewhat cold reception.

In the royal cemetery, while other monarchs simply have the inscription " King of the Hellenes, Prince of Denmark ", Alexander's reads " Alexander, son of the King of the Hellenes, Prince of Denmark.

He appears never to have been a danger for Alexander's succession to Philip II, notwithstanding their being of about the same age ; all the same, when the satrap of Caria Pixodarus proposed his daughter in marriage to Philip, who offered Arrhidaeus as husband, Alexander thought it prudent to block the operation, with considerable irritation of his father ( 337 BC ).

Callisthenes wrote an account of Alexander's expedition up to the time of his own execution, a history of Greece from the Peace of Antalcidas ( 387 ) to the Phocian war ( 357 ), a history of the Phocian war, and other works, all of which have perished.

However, his account of Alexander's expedition was preserved long enough to be mined as a direct or indirect source for other histories that have survived.

After Alexander's death in 323 BCE, Chandragupta, turned his attention to Northwestern India ( modern Pakistan ), where he defeated the satrapies ( described as " prefects " in classical Western sources ) left in place by Alexander ( according to Justin ), and may have assassinated two of his governors, Nicanor and Philip.

" He went on to write " There has never been any doubt in my mind that had General Clark held loyally to General Alexander's instructions, had he not changed the direction of my attack to the north-west on May 26, the strategic objectives of Anzio would have been accomplished in full.

No concise biography has ever been written about him, likely stemming from the fact that he died before Alexander and none of those among Alexander's companions who survived him would have had a need to promote someone other than themselves.

Sharing Alexander's upbringing, Hephaestion would have learned to fight and to ride well from an early age.

Already the two were intimate, Patroclus and Achilles even to those around them ; the comparison would remain to the end of their days and is proof of their life as lovers, for by Alexander's time, Achilles and Patroclus were agreed to have enjoyed the relationship which Homer himself had never directly mentioned.

It is possible that he was closest to Perdiccas, because it was with Perdiccas that he went on the mission to take Peuceolatis and bridge the Indus, and by that time, as Alexander's effective second-in-command, he could doubtless have chosen any officer he cared to name.

In this instance, it is easier to see that resentment might have been felt on both sides, for Craterus was one of those officers who vehemently disliked Alexander's policy of integrating Greek and Persian, whereas Hephaestion was very much in favour.

It is a measure of how high feelings were running over this contentious issue, that such a thing should have happened, and also an indication of how closely Hephaestion identified Alexander's wishes with his own.

Between the two, they have four children, Alexander's son — Jace, a television director — and Sherin's three sons — Tony, Geoffrey, and Jon.

For the Greek royal family, Alexander's reign was never regarded as fully legitimate.

It is possible that the pyre was not burnt, but that it was actually intended as a tomb or lasting memorial ; if so, it is likely that it was never completed, as there are references to expensive, uncompleted projects at the time of Alexander's own death.

Though the debate surrounding the cause of Alexander's sudden death has never been clearly resolved, all of our ancient sources — even those who reject the notion of murder and assign the death to natural causes — mention that rumours abounded in the late fourth century BC that Antipater had been responsible for poisoning the great king.

When Adams read Dr. Alexander's article in a Massachusetts newspaper, he was astonished because he had never previously heard of the Mecklenburg Declaration.

On Alexander III's death his granddaughter Margaret ( Maid of Norway ) was recognised as " right heir ", as had been agreed in Alexander's lifetime, but she was never inaugurated as Queen of Scots.

There is also a third ending that occurs if you destroy the genie instead of turning him good again when you have that choice: its mostly the same as the best possible ending except there are fewer people as the genie never repaired the ferry and also couldn't bring Alexander's family.

Fairfax was the only resident peer in North America — William Alexander's claim to be the Earl of Stirling was never fully successful and other peers held offices in the Colonies, but returned to Britain afterwards.

Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.

There has been speculation that during the prolonged process of the annulment, Lucrezia consummated a relationship with someone, perhaps Alexander's messenger Perotto.

Alexander's influence — an emphasis on matter over style, on careful wording, with the occasional Homeric quotation — has been detected in Marcus ' Meditations.

During Alexander's reign, the law of Nihil novi had been instituted, which forbade kings of Poland from enacting laws without the consent of the Sejm.

Princess Ekaterina Mihailovna Dolgorukova, Alexander's second bride, had previously been his long-term mistress and the mother of his three legitimised children, the Princes and Princesses Yurievsky.

* Alexander's regent in Macedonia, Antipater, makes peace with the Thracians ( with whom he has been warring ) and then marches south with a large force of over 40, 000 men.

By the time of the advance into India, after the deaths of senior generals from the older generation, there had been worrying instances among senior officers of their own generation, of treachery, a lack of sympathy with Alexander's aims of further integration of Persians into the army, and of sheer incompetence.

According to the painting done by Aetion, of Alexander's first wedding, Hephaestion was his torch bearer ( best man ), showing by this not only his friendship, but also his support for Alexander's policies, as Alexander's choice of an Asian bride had not been a popular one.

By the time they returned to Persia, Hephaestion was officially, by title, Alexander's second-in-command, as he had long been in practice, and also his brother-in-law.

Lucian, writing in his book On Slips of the Tongue describes an occasion when Hephaestion's conversation one morning implied that he had been in Alexander's tent all night, and Plutarch describes the intimacy between them when he tells how Hephaestion was in the habit of reading Alexander's letters with him, and of a time when he showed that the contents of a letter were to be kept secret by touching his ring to Hephaestion's lips.

Of his short married life, nothing is known, except that at the time of Alexander's own death, eight months after Hephaestion's, Drypetis was still mourning the husband to whom she had been married for only four months.

At that point Polyperchon, a regent of Macedon who had been replaced by Cassander and had all but disappeared for the previous six years, began championing Heracles as Alexander's true heir, and Polyperchon began forming an army.