Alexander the Great

A look at the life of Alexander the Great, from his birth in Macedonia and his conquests to the edge of the world and back.

In the past, heroes were admired for their improbable exploit. Let’s have a look at the story of Alexander the great, his early life, battles and death.

For the Irish historian John Bagnell Bury, history should be treated as a science and not a mere branch of literature. Many contemporary histories written in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century were poetic and heroic in tone, blending fact and fiction, myths and legends. They sometimes relied on sources from Shakespeare and classical poets. For Bury, the facts of history may be legendary or romantic in nature, but they should be recounted in a scholarly and non-judgmental manner, ...