The Accomplishments Of Alexander The Great

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the poet. Pindar was long dead, but Alexander wanted to prove that
even a Macedonian conqueror could be a Hellene. The savage lesson of Thebes
brought results, the Athenian assembly quickly congratulated Alexander, and
the Greek states, with Sparta as the continuing exception, remained
Macedonian allies.
Alexander now took on a project that Philip had planned but never
carried out: an invasion of Persia. He decision to do this was purely a
political one. For a century Persia had interfered increasingly in Greek
affairs and had constantly oppressed the Greek cities in Asia Minor.
Alexander had personal reasons too. Avid for glory and for identification
with Greece, Alexander knew no better way to win both than by attacking
Greece_s ancient foe. In some ways the invasion, the longest military
campaign ever undertaken, was a reckless undertaking. It required a large
army to move an enormous distance from its supply bases, through and
unfamiliar country, against a power ...

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self-assured sentence his contempt
for the Persians, his even greater contempt for the Spartans, and his
conviction that he was furthering a Greek cause. _Of all the generals of
the ancient world Alexander was surely the greatest. He possessed an almost
clairvoyant insight into strategy and was a consummately resourceful
tactician.
Alexander could be compared to Napoleon in swiftness and in
movement, but Alexander could be patient as well. As he showed in his siege
of the fortress of Tyre, which lasted for about seven months. The old port
of Tyre had been abandoned for some time, and the Tyrians were now securely
enclosed behind massive walls on an island that was half a mile ...

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