Alexander IIIAlexander III the Great, king of Macedonia and conqueror of the Persian Empire, is one of the best-known personalities of ancient civilization. According to the main source "The Parallel Lives", the Greek writer Plutarch 46-119 AD, "Alexander was born at the beginning of the month Hecatombaeon, whose Macedonian name is Loüs, on the sixth day of the month, and on that day the The temple of Ephesian Artemis was burned" (Plutarch, "The Parallel Lives" ~ 100 AD). He was the son of the Macedonian king Fillip II and his wife Olympia, princess of Epirus. He spent his childhood in watching his father make Macedonia a great military nation He attended most of the political meetings with his father, "he received the ambassadors of the king of Persia, in his father's absence, and entering into much conversation with them, gained so much on them by his affability and the questions he asked them, which were far from childish or insignificant..." (Plutarch, "The Parallel Lives" ~ 100 AD). was 13, his father hired the great Greek philosopher Aristotle as his tutor, Alexander told him: “With my parents, my life belongs to me; in my teacher, my well-being belongs to me" (Plutarch, "Parallel Lives" ~ 100 AD). Aristotle taught him rhetoric, literature, science and medicine which were very important for his future life. After the mysterious death of the great conqueror Philip the Second, Alexander III came and took the throne and was left with his father's dream of conquering the Persian Empire. His journey began when he was 20 BC. "Parallel lives", when Alexander arrived in Thebes asked Phoenix and Prothytes, the perpetrators of the rebellion... middle of paper ...... a few months later, the Macedonians burned the palace of Persepolis and left From this moment they ended the period of the Persian Empire Alexander the Great to move eastwards, towards Central Asia. “In 11 years, from 335 BC to 324 BC, Alexander and his army. made their way 22,000 miles” (Chris Whitten, Alexander the Great Conqueror of the World, 2001). of Rome put an end to the Macedonian kingdoms. Plutarch once said of Alexander's achievements: "Having founded more than 70 cities among barbarian peoples and establishing Greek magistracies in Asia, Alexander conquered his wild and savage way of life" (Plutarch, ~100 A.D. JC). ). Alexander in fact opened the enormous immigration to the East. Alexander the Great of Macedon brought together civilizations like Greece and the Middle East. After his death, the period of history known as the Hellenic Age began..