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Posted 2003-11-17, 01:40 PM
in reply to Kuja`s #1's post "Kuja and the Invincible"
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Yes it is always like that. Alexander is from Alexander The Great.
He conquered in no time most of the known world during his time.
Here some info about him.
Alexander was born on 356 B.C. He was born in Pella the ancient capital of Macedonia, was the son of Philip II, king of Macedonia, and of Olympias, a princess of Epirus. His tutor was Aristotle, who trained him in rhetoric and literature and stimulated his interest in science, medicine and philosophy.
Unfortunately in the summer of 336 B.C. his father was assassinated and he ascended to the Macedainian throne. Also unfortunate was that by that time he found his empire in disorder. He had enemies all over, in home and people threatening rebellion abroad. He did quickly deal with this by killing all of the threats and restoring order to his small empire. Then he restored order to Thessaly which had attempted independence. Before the end of summer he had reestablished his position in Greece and was elected by a congress of states at Corinth.
In 335B.C. as general of the Greeks in a campaign against the Persians, originally planned by his father, he carried out a successful campaign against the defeating Thracains, penetrating to the Danube River. On his return he crushed in a single week the threatening Illyrians and then hastened to Thebes, which had revolted. He took the city by storm and razed it, sparing only the temples of the gods and the houses of the Greek lyric poet Pindar, and selling the surviving inhabitants, about 8000 in number, into slavery. Alexander's promptness in crushing the revolt of Thebes brought the other Greek states into instant and abject submission.
As you can see Alexander had started his way to being a great and powerful ruler. It is said that while visiting Athens to seal a pact, Alexander visited the Oracle at Delphi, despite it being a day when prophecy was forbidden . In his attempts to drag the priestess to the place where she gave her Oracles, she screamed:
"My son, you are invincible!"
That was apparently all he needed to hear and in the spring of 334 he departed to Asia.
Near the point of his death he begin to believe he was a god so he begin to tell his people that he was descend from Hercules by printing coins that had them both on them. His mother also told him that a serpent had impregnated her rather then his father adding to his thoughts that he was a god. also before his death he had some of his cities worship him as a god.
His death is still shrouded in mystery to this day. It does seem hard to believe that a 33 year old man could one day out of the blue just die. Modern historians have tried to piece together what happened.


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