About fate and valor. Alexander the Great. Macedonian Alexander

Tsar Alexander III of the ancient Argead dynasty, better known as Alexander the Great and Alexander the Macedonian, is famous for his successful conquest activity, which allowed the commander, who did not live for 33 years, to subordinate lands that have been spent from the Black Sea to the Syrdarya and the Arabian Sea. P>

Over the past millennia, filled with wars, fires and radical changes in culture, all the early works of ancient historians, telling about Alexander, were lost. Nevertheless, a significant part of their material was conveyed to us through essays created several centuries after the death of the conqueror.

This publication included now antique written monuments, in which information from the early sources was transmitted relatively accurately. These are the works of Arrian, Diodorus, Plutarch, Strabo and Athenaeus. Turning to the materials of the works presented, the reader has the opportunity to make his own idea of ​​both the activities of Alexander himself and the features of the perception of his image in later times.