“It’s really because I adopted Alexander the Great. I fell in love with him when ... and the Homeric idea that war brought glory,” he says. “Once he had defeated the Persian Empire ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.

Alexander, the brilliant young Macedonian king remembered as “the Great,” has frequently been compared to the mythic Greek hero Achilles. Both were beloved by their soldiers and almost invincible.

A 16th-century depiction of Alexander the Great commissioned for the Mughal ... On a hunt in 328 B.C., their glory-seeking king insisted on killing a lion single-handed. After he had shoved ...

The world we live in might be unrecognizable if Alexander the Great had been defeated by the Persians. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists say they have identified the site where one of Alexander the Great's most significant battles occurred more than 2,300 years ago. The research team ...

At long last, Turkish researchers have pinpointed the precise site of the Battle of Granicus, where Alexander the Great achieved his first monumental victory on the road to becoming history’s ...

Alexander of Macedon earned his epithet “Great”—awarded to him in antiquity and not, as one might think, only later—by conquering an empire of two million square miles, stretching from ...