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

While there he is said to have encountered a statue of Alexander the Great, and realized with dissatisfaction he was now at an age when Alexander had the world at his feet, while he had achieved comparatively little.

Alexander Hamilton realized while serving as Washington's top aide that a strong central government was necessary to avoid foreign intervention and allay the frustrations due to an ineffectual Congress.

Kutuzov quickly realized that he no longer had any power with Alexander and the Austrian chief of staff General-Major Franz von Weyrother.

" Long after his death, it was realized that Alexander had produced the Military Memoirs, which sought to be a professional work of military history and analysis, after a long effort of editing a collection of much more personal memoirs that he had starting compiling during his time in Greytown, Nicaragua, at the behest of his family.

In the 1960s, Cookie and Alexander grew into teenagers ( who uncannily resemble their parents ), but they stopped growing during the 1960s when Young realized that they had to remain teenagers to maintain the family situation structured into the strip for so many decades.

) The second aureus, issued by the emperor Alexander Severus, has a picture of the Colosseum on the reverse, and had a price realized of $ 920, 000.

In 1969, John Conway showed a version of this polynomial, now called the Alexander – Conway polynomial, could be computed using a skein relation, although its significance was not realized until the discovery of the Jones polynomial in 1984.

Soon after Conway's reworking of the Alexander polynomial, it was realized that a similar skein relation was exhibited in Alexander's paper on his polynomial.

According to the local legend, Alexander realized the strategic importance of the crossing site and left a garrison of infantry and the entire Thracian cavalry in order to maintain control over it.

Eurydice ’ s portrait-statue, together with those of her most celebrated son Philip II, Philip II's wife, Olympias, her grandson, Alexander the Great, and her husband, Amyntas III, were realized by the Athenian statuary and sculptor Leochares in ivory and gold.

Unlike with Aristotle, we have no complete works by the Megarians or the early Stoics, and have to rely mostly on accounts ( sometimes hostile ) by later sources, including prominently Diogenes Laertius, Sextus Empiricus, Galen, Aulus Gellius, Alexander of Aphrodisias and Cicero.

* Diogenes of Seleucia ( Epicurean ) ( died 146 BC ), Epicurean philosopher and adviser to King Alexander of Syria

Diogenes of Sinope, in a letter written to Alexander when he was a grown man, accuses Alexander of being "... ruled by Hephaestion's thighs.

Diogenes was also responsible for publicly mocking Alexander the Great.

Alexander the Great visits Diogenes at Corinth by W. Matthews ( 1914 )

It was in Corinth that a meeting between Alexander the Great and Diogenes is supposed to have taken place.

The accounts of Plutarch and Diogenes Laërtius recount that they exchanged only a few words: while Diogenes was relaxing in the sunlight in the morning, Alexander, thrilled to meet the famous philosopher, asked if there was any favour he might do for him.

Alexander then declared, " If I were not Alexander, then I should wish to be Diogenes.

Among the most famous were Thargelia, a renowned Ionian hetaera of ancient times ; Aspasia, companion of Pericles ; Archeanassa, companion of Plato ; the famous Neaira ; Thaïs, a concubine of Ptolemy, who was one of the generals on the expeditions of Alexander the Great and later became king of Egypt ; Lais of Corinth, the famed beauty who lived during the Peloponnesian War ; Lais of Hyccara, a courtesan who is said to have provided her services to the philosopher Diogenes free of charge ; and the famously beautiful Phryne, the model and muse of the sculptor Praxiteles.

His statue of Milo of Croton ( Louvre ) had been completed in 1682, Perseus and Andromeda ( Louvre ) in 1684 ; and Alexander and Diogenes ( bas-relief, Louvre ) in 1685, but, in spite of the personal favour which he enjoyed, Puget, on coming to Paris in 1688 to push forward the execution of an equestrian statue of Louis XIV, found court intrigues too much for him.

Alexander places severe demands on Athens but relents on most of them after meeting with the philosopher Diogenes.

The tapestry, purchased by the Laughlin family in England at the turn of the century, depicts the legendary reception given Alexander the Great by the Greek philosopher Diogenes.

* The Marchioness de Lambert's Letters to her Son and Daughter, On True Education and Dialogue Between Alexander and Diogenes on the Equality of Happiness ; trans.

We learn from Diogenes Laërtius that Onesicritus wrote a work about Alexander called How Alexander was Educated (), imitating the style of Xenophon, though he fell short of him as a copy does of the original.

*# Diogenes ; Alexander and Roxana ; Martyrdom of SS.

Diogenes was a soldier in the service of the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus ( 103-76 BCE ).

In revenge for the support of certain Pharisees for Demetrius III of Syria's invasion of Judea, Diogenes advised Alexander to crucify 800 Pharisee scholars and murder their families before their eyes.