Philosopher Aristotle was summoned to teach young Alexander the Great; it was a tutorage that helped shape the course of Greek civilization.

The excavation centers around the Kasta Tomb in Amphipolis, the ruins of an ancient Macedonian city in northern Greece, about ...

When Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 BC, his vast empire immediately began to tear itself apart. Warlords ...

The name Alexander the Great is considered legendary. It stands for power and a drive that refused to quit. More than two thousand years later, people still talk about how this young king managed to ...

The son of a king, Alexander was a brilliant military leader who conquered most of the known world—but he wasn't much of a diplomat. Alexander the Great slices the Gordian Knot with his sword in 333 B ...

The Asian campaign of Alexander the Great had an unexpected impact on the economy of Macedonia and the rest of Ancient Greece ...

In life, Alexander the Great stamped his mark across the known world. Today, the search for tangible evidence of his fleeting existence continues. While the prospect of uncovering Alexander’s tomb ...

Back in the B.C. era, Macedonian soldiers knew how to get down. On one unfortunate occasion, the ones who drank with ...

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Today, Alexander the Great is widely considered antiquity’s preeminent military commander. As it turns out, his battleground fame was so far flung that, even 500 years after his death, Alexander was ...

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