Picture Alexander the Great alive today. How would his colossal wealth stack up against the likes of modern-day moguls?

ADVERTISEMENT The Macedonian empire quickly cracked up, however, leaving behind multiple successor states under Greek-speaking royal families. These were the richest societies of the Mediterranean ...

This set the stage for his son, Alexander the Great, to become the king of the Macedonian empire. “It is a civilization that played a major role in today's understanding of the world and the ...

The Macedonian conquest was widely detested and resisted in a Persian Empire military historian Grainger describes not as the discordant mélange of peoples depicted in classical Greek accounts ...

he emphasizes that the Macedonian wasn’t conquering brand-new territory, mile by mile, but a pre-existing empire. “He conquered the Persian empire and its frontiers — it was his main goal ...

For 27 years, Greece and Macedonia have been bedeviled by one ... expedition under King Alexander the Great that established an empire reaching as far as India. Many of the battered southerners ...

The Macedonian emperor is said to have wearily turned to his generals and said that his empire would go to the strongest among them. Within a couple of years, the empire that had been carved out ...