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In 336 b.c. Philip of Macedonia was assassinated and his twenty-year-old son, Alexander, inherited his kingdom. Immediately quelling rebellion, Alexander extended his father's empire through-out the Middle East and into parts of Asia, fulFilling the soothsayer Aristander's prediction... Read Full Overview

Plutarch's influential writings on the ancient world

Plutarch's parallel biographies of the great men in Greek and Roman history are cornerstones of European literature, drawn on by countless writers since the Renaissance. This selection provides intimate glimpses... Read Full Overview

Includes textual and historical notes that supplement a segment of Plutarch's Lives which covers the rise of Macedonia.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely... Read Full Overview

" ...C'est un fait tenu pour constant que, du c t paternel, Alexandre descendait d'Hercule par Caranus, et que, du c t de sa m re, il se rattachait aux acides, par N optol me1. On dit que Philippe, tant Samothrace, tout jeune encore, y fut initi aux myst res avec Olympias,... Read Full Overview

" ...C'est un fait tenu pour constant que, du c t paternel, Alexandre descendait d'Hercule par Caranus, et que, du c t de sa m re, il se rattachait aux acides, par N optol me1. On dit que Philippe, tant Samothrace, tout jeune encore, y fut initi aux myst res avec Olympias,... Read Full Overview