Alexander the Great, who used runners as message carriers, did not have to worry about having every officer in his command hear what he said and having hundreds of them comment at once.

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Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Aristotle's influence over Alexander the Great is seen in the latter's bringing with him on his expedition a host of zoologists, botanists, and researchers.

Category: Philosophers and tutors of Alexander the Great

The conventions of this representation, head tilted, lips slightly parted, large-eyed, curling hair cut in locks grazing the neck, were developed in the 3rd century BCE to depict Alexander the Great.

Alexander the Great in Greek and Roman Art.

* Ada of Caria, satrap deposed by her brother Idrieus and restored by Alexander the Great

In the 4th century BC Alexander the Great conquered the peninsula, defeating the Persians.

In the latter part of the 4th century BC, the Macedonian Greek king Alexander the Great conquered the peninsula.

Philippus claimed descent from Alexander the Great, and was elected consul in 56 BC.

Alexander the Great threw a spear to Abydos while crossing the strait and claimed Asia as his own.

As the son of Neoptolemus I and brother of Olympias, Alexander I was an uncle of Alexander the Great.

In a famous passage that is often considered the first specimen of alternative history, Livy speculates on what would have been the outcome of a military showdown between Alexander the Great and the Roman Republic.

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Great solicitude was devoted to the education of Nicolas as tsarevich, whereas Alexander received only the training of an ordinary Grand Duke of that period.

Alexander the warrior and knight: the reverse side of Alexander II's Great Seal, enhanced as a 19th century steel engraving.

* Alexander the Great, ancient Greek king and general

The most famous is Alexander the Great, who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.

The name's popularity was spread throughout the Greek world by the military conquests of King Alexander III, commonly known as " Alexander the Great ".

* Alexander the Great ( Alexander III of Macedon ), King of Macedon, 356 – 323 BC

Alexander died in April 1124 at his court at Stirling ; his brother David, probably the acknowledged heir since the death of Sybilla, succeeded him.

The Mantissa was probably not written by Alexander in its current form, but much of the actual material may be his.

In 1210, the Church Council of Paris issued a condemnation, which probably targeted the writings of Alexander among others.

There is some doubt as to the origin of the name ; but most probably it is derived from a collection of Alexandrine romances, collected in the 12th century, of which Alexander the Great was the hero, and in which he was represented, somewhat like the British Arthur, as the pride and crown of chivalry.

The FIDE Congress in Vienna in 1957 adopted new regulations, called the FAV system, in recognition of the work done by International Judge Giovanni Ferrantes ( Italy ), Alexander ( probably Conel Hugh O ' Donel Alexander ), and Giancarlo Dal Verme ( Italy ).

The area of Karachi was known to the ancient Greeks by many names: Krokola, the place where Alexander the Great camped to prepare a fleet for Babylonia after his campaign in the Indus Valley ; ' Morontobara ' ( probably Manora island near Karachi harbour ), from whence Alexander's admiral Nearchus set sail ; and Barbarikon, a port of the Bactrian kingdom.

" Erasmus claimed him as a father / teacher figure and may have actually met him through his own schoolmaster Alexander Hegius ( most probably one of Agricola's students ) at Hegius's school in Deventer.

Alexander III made similar provisions when arranging the marriage of his son Alexander to Margaret, daughter of Guy de Dampierre, Count of Flanders, probably also in 1281.

* A damaged cuneiform astronomical diary tablet from Babylon ( Babylonian Chronicle 8: the Alexander Chronicle, BM 36304 ) mentions that " ki-di-nu was killed by the sword " on day 15 of probably the 5th month of that year, which has been dated as 14 August 330 BC, less than a year after Alexander the Great conquered Babylon.

Although he has appeared in numerous films and TV series in both Europe and the US, he is probably best recognised for his role as Alexander Brandtner in the Austrian / German television series Kommissar Rex ( 1998 – 2001 ), which has been aired on television in numerous countries around the world, or as Corporal Wilhelm Wicki in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds,

The name was changed to Antiochia Ptolemais shortly after Alexander the Great's conquest, and then to Ptolemais, probably by Ptolemy Soter, after the partition of the kingdom of Alexander the Great.

Alexander, probably under pressure from his close kinsmen Donald Balloch, John Mór's son, and Alasdair Carrach of Lochaber, led a rebellion attacking the castle and burgh of Inverness in spring 1429.

Alexander escaped probably to Islay but James continued his assault on the Lordship by taking the strongholds of Dingwall and Urquhart castles in July.

Alexander probably realised that his position was hopeless and tried to negotiate terms of surrender but James demanded and received his total submission.

The rules parliament attached to the taxation indicated a robust stand against further conflict in the north and probably led to the turnaround that took place on 22 October when the king ' forgave the offence of each earl, namely Douglas and Ross Alexander '.

* Crossing the Hindu Kush northward, probably over the Khawak Pass, Alexander brings his army, despite food shortages, to Drapsaka.

A few years after the death of Alexander the Great, Macedonian king Antigonus — who had taken control of much of Asia Minor upon the death of Alexander ( under whom Antigonus had served as a general ) — probably after his victory over Eumenes, in 316 BC, rebuilt the town, and called it, after himself, Antigoneia ().

The city was originally located on the mainland, but probably during the early fifth-century Ionian Revolt from the Persians, it was moved to an island just off the coast, which Alexander the Great eventually connected to the mainland with a causeway.

Accurate dates for Praxiteles are elusive, but it is likely that he was no longer working in the time of Alexander the Great, in the absence of evidence that Alexander employed Praxiteles, as he probably would have done.

* 1409 – Western Schism: the Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.

* 1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.

Alexander and Maria were crowned at the Kremlin in Moscow on 27 May 1883.

Six crowned representatives of the Holstein-Gottorp-Romanov line include: Paul ( 1796 – 1801 ), Alexander I ( 1801 – 1825 ), Nicholas I ( 1825 – 55 ), Alexander II ( 1855 – 81 ), Alexander III ( 1881 – 94 ), and Nicholas II ( 1894 – 1917 ).

In 1730, at Nikwasi, a former Mississippian culture site, a Scots adventurer, Sir Alexander Cumming, crowned Moytoy of Tellico as " Emperor " of the Cherokee.

At the Donations of Alexandria in late 34 BC, following Antony's conquest of Armenia, Cleopatra and Caesarion were crowned co-rulers of Egypt and Cyprus ; Alexander Helios was crowned ruler of Armenia, Media, and Parthia ; Cleopatra Selene II was crowned ruler of Cyrenaica and Libya ; and Ptolemy Philadelphus was crowned ruler of Phoenicia, Syria, and Cilicia.

Even though he was not crowned, many nobles, as well as King Alexander II of Scotland ( 1214 – 49 ) for his English possessions, gathered to give homage.

In 332 BCE, Alexander the Great was crowned pharaoh in the Temple of Ptah, ushering in the Hellenistic period.

Montferrand designed the monument to the late Alexander I as a column, crowned with a cross ; later, he changed the cross to an angel.

After Tigranes was crowned King in Rome, his son Alexander had married Iotapa in Rome.

After the marriage of Iotapa and Alexander occurred in Rome, Nero crowned them Queen and King of Cetis, a small region in Cilicia, that was previously ruled by her father.

Alexander was crowned co-emperor by his father in about the year 879.

In 1922, a major international tournament was organized in London, the first in almost a quarter of a century ; many of the world's leading players agreed to compete, such as newly crowned World Champion José Raúl Capablanca, Alexander Alekhine, and Akiba Rubinstein.

The first requirement ( coronation by the Archbishop of Esztergom ) was confirmed by Béla III, who had been crowned by the Archbishop of Kalocsa based on the special authorisation of Pope Alexander III, but after his coronation he declared that his coronation would not harm the customary claim of the Archbishops of Esztergom to crown the kings.

Alexander I's successor, Nicholas I was crowned King of Poland on 24 May 1829 in Warsaw, but he declined to swear to abide by the Constitution and continued to limit the independence of the Polish Kingdom.

The cathedral was consecrated on the very day Alexander III was crowned, 26 May 1883.

In 1501 at Mielnik, senators attempted to force the soon to be crowned king Alexander Jagiellon to devolve all royal powers relating to the governing of the state to them.

" Victory coin " of Alexander the Great, minted in Babylon c. 322 BCE, following his campaigns in India. Obv: Alexander being crowned by Nike ( mythology ) | Nike. Rev: Alexander attacking King Porus on his elephant. Silver.