<h1>In the history of both the West and the East, Alexander is evaluated as a great man. </h1>
It took Alexander only thirteen years to build a vast empire spanning Europe, Asia and Africa at the age of thirty. Then, just after death, this vast empire disintegrated in an instant.....
After reading a few books about Alexander recently, I realized that behind his greatness, there are too many unbearable sides! How unbearable? Please listen to the big lion continue to talk...
The story begins with Alexander's great-grandfather, Achila, king of Macedonia. Located north of the Greek peninsula, Macedonia was of the same Aryan race, but in the era of Greece's prosperity, The Macedonians were regarded as barbarians and harassed by Greece from time to time.
Around 364 BC, Alexander's great-grandfather ---- Macedonian king Acela was forced to abdicate, after which the empire was divided into two parts, administered by the eldest son Perdikas III and the second son Armentas II. The real reason behind why the dynasty splits is that the old king Acela discovered that both sons were having an affair with his wife and concubine, and when he wanted to punish his son, he was divided up by his son in advance.
After the brothers separated, a battle soon broke out, and both attempted to occupy each other's territory. The result of the war was that the younger brother was not his brother's rival, so he had to take his 15-year-old second son Philip hostage to the Dibis, one of the three greek powers, hoping to get help from the Dibis. Unfortunately, the Dubbys were reluctant to intervene in this brotherly war. Eventually, Amintas II's territory was occupied by his brother, the couple was captured, and the eldest son fled to northern Greece.
Philip, who remained as a hostage in Dibis, hoped to get help from the Dibis, so he studied Greek culture assiduously and became a military expert. However, his father was eventually defeated and captured by his uncle, and he was driven out of the country without use value. But fortunately, Philip was well-spoken, and he eventually persuaded the Dibis and borrowed soldiers. Upon his return, Philip defeated his uncle and became king of Macedonia himself.
During this period, Philip married Olympias, the sixteen-year-old daughter of his ally King Epirus, a beautiful woman who believed in ceres and dionysus in Greek mythology, and drank alcohol and promiscuously during the ritual sacrifices. Philip began to dislike this wife, and after giving birth to his son Alexander, he let her hook up with the young guards and no longer had any feelings for her. Philip left Olympias aside, while he went to meet his old lover, DuPofia.
As the Kingdom of Macedonia grew, philip became more and more women, and Olympias became an outcast woman, and because of his mother, Alexander was repeatedly suspected by the senators that he was not Philip's species, which Philip himself was also suspicious of.
Nevertheless, Philip was very fond of this son, and he feared that his son would be taught badly by Olympias, so he sent him to his old lover Dubofia as Alexander's enlightenment teacher. Obviously this was the right thing to do, and Dupofia was not only beautiful but also learned, and treated Alexander as if he were his own. He also repeatedly upset Alexander, warning Philip that Alexander was his son and not to listen to other people's rumors.
Alexander was in Dubofia until the age of 16, and then began to follow his father in military activities and accompanied his father on expeditions. Alexander excelled in every way, he was a natural military genius and statesman.
But all this was met with the jealousy of her biological mother, Olympias, who repeatedly stirred up the feelings of the father and son, and the history books say that she even seduced her son to bed for this. This was one of the reasons why Alexander had no interest in women in the future, and therefore was childless for life.
Friction and discord between Philip and Alexander began, and hostility between father and son appeared. Philip feared that his son would kill him to seize the throne, and Alexander feared that his father would take away his heir. When Alexander was 20 years old, Philip was assassinated at his daughter's wedding, and the murderer was killed on the spot. Therefore, no one knows who caused the murderer. Thus there are three speculations circulating in Macedonia and Greece: First, the Persian conspiracy, because they have long wanted to get involved in Macedonia. Second, the murderer spontaneously assassinated Philip, because the murderer was Philip's male favorite, perhaps because of the intention to kill because of the loss of favor. The third speculation was directed at Alexander and his mother Olympias, and many believe that the two had murdered Philip so that Alexander could replace his father as king of Macedonia.
Just after Philip's death, Alexander began to kill his brothers and his father's cronies, even the babies, and Olympias cruelly threw the children of the royal family into a copper furnace and burned them to death. Soon after, the mother and son built a tomb for Philip's killer, and it was more luxurious than Philip's tomb. What the two of them did seemed to be in full line with all the points of killing their father and seizing the throne.
Although Alexander was somewhat cruel, he was also a military genius, and under his leadership, in just thirteen years, the Kingdom of Macedonia became a vast empire spanning Europe, Asia and Africa. But surprisingly, Alexander did not have a single real marriage, although he had had two marriages, but the other was the daughter of the conqueror, and the marriage was nothing more than a political means, not love. Although Alexander later married two beautiful daughters of Darius, the Persian king, he never had a room with the sisters. Obviously he is misogynistic, but he likes male pets. He often lived with his childhood playmates and gave them high-ranking officials houlu to make them his male favorites.
These reasons led to Alexander having no heirs, and therefore no successor to his empire. His large and small territories were administered separately by the governor, and these people were not his dependents or descendants, and no one would really serve him. After Alexander's death, because there was no heir, this huge empire lost its master, the governors became independent, and all the Eurasian and African continents conquered by Alexander collapsed, which was also the inevitable result.
In Alexander's life, conquest was his greatest interest and hobby, his pastime, and his only way to escape his mother. Obviously, there is too much behind this great king, and although he has a huge empire, he is not happy.