Mark.Īs Mark notes, historian Diodorus Siculus once wrote that Alexander's successes were 'not the work of Fortune but of his own force of character, for this king stands out above all others for his military acumen, personal courage and intellectual brilliance.' Using skills likely gleaned from his personal tutor, none other than Aristotle, Alexander spread ancient Greece's refined culture and high-minded ethos as much by sheer attraction as by conquest, according to author Joshua J. After inheriting an already significant kingdom from his flesh-and-blood father, Philip II, Alexander conquered Persia and numerous other lands.
Born Alexander III of Macedon, according to the Ancient History Encyclopedia, Alexander the Great came to think of himself as a demigod and a son of Zeus, the Greeks' highest-ranking Olympian god.
