Who the Hell Was Alexander the Great?
Alexander was the kid who looked at the known world and said, “Yeah, I’ll take that.” Son of Philip of Macedon, student of Aristotle, and a military savant by his early 20s, he conquered from Greece to India with charisma, logistics, and terrifying speed. His army didn’t just win battles — it rewrote geography.
He named cities after himself like a narcissist with a cartographer, blended cultures like a proto-globalist, and cut the Gordian Knot with a sword instead of solving it. He claimed to be descended from Achilles and ruled like the gods had already voted yes. His men followed him into hell because he always won. Until he didn’t.
He died in Babylon, just 32, either from fever, poison, or fate cashing in early. His empire crumbled almost immediately, but the legend never did. Alexander wasn’t just great — he made the word feel small.