Alexander

• Name the two women Alexander married at Susa and To whom was he already married?


  - Barsine, the eldest daughters of Darius, and Parysatis, the youngest of the daughters of Ochus

  - Roxanne, the daughter of Oxyartes from Bactria.
• Who did Hephaestion marry?

  Drypetis, another daughter of Darius
• How many of his companions got married?

  80
• What was the status of their brides?


  the most noble daughters of the Persians and the Medes.
• What did Alexander give to the brides and grooms?

  Dowries
• What did he order the Macedonians who had married Asian women to do?

  to register their names
• Why do you think that these weddings took place? Note that Alexander never gave Macedonian women in marriage to Persian men

  Makes the women macedonian and joins the two cultures together
• The Death of Hephaestion: Where was Alexander, and what was happening?


  At Ecbatana, Alexander offered a sacrifice, just as he was accustomed to do after

  any success, and held athletic and musical contests, and there were also drinking

  bouts with his companions.
• The Death of Hephaestion: How does Arrian describe what happened to Hephaestion?


  At this time, Hephaestion fell ill; on the seventh day of his illness, they say that the

  stadium was full, as there was an athletic competition for boys on that day; when Alexander was told that Hephaestion was in a bad way, he quickly left to go to him, but he was no longer living by the time he arrived.
• The Death of Hephaestion: What things was Alexander likely to have done?


  - Didn't take care of himself for 2 days

  - Weep next to his body

  - He strung up the doctor for giving the wrong drug
• The Death of Hephaestion: What do all the accounts say Alexander did?


  that Alexander did not taste food or take any care of his body for two days after the

  death of Hephaestion, but lay groaning or in a grief-filled silence.
• The Death of Hephaestion: How did Alexander intend to honour Hephaestion?


  He ordered a funeral pyre costing 10,000 talents to be prepared for him in Babylon, and

  Some claim the cost was even greater. It was announced that there should be public

  mourning throughout the whole barbarian land.
• The death of Alexander: What signs did Alexander get that showed something bad was going to happen?

  - Nearchus said that some Chaldaeans had met him who advised that Alexander should keep away from Babylon

  - Many ravens flew around striking each other and some fell at his feet

  - Ass (donkey) kicks a lion to death

  - The victim of a sacrifice had no lobes on its liver

  - A strange man was sat on Alexander's throne when he finished athletics
• The death of Alexander: How did Alexander show that he was fearful of the future? What made him put aside his fears?


  - The royal palace was full of people sacrificing and purifying and making predictions of the future

  - When some answers from the gods were brought to him about Hephaestion
• The death of Alexander: When did he start to suffer from a fever?

  After drinking through all of the next day
• The death of Alexander: What were Alexander's symptoms?

  Maddening fever, and when he was thirsty he drank wine, after this he became delirious and died
• The death of Alexander: When did he die?

  30th day of the month Daesius
• What did Olympias do 5 years after Alexander's death?


  Put a number of men to death and scattered the ashes of Iolas on the grounds that he had administered the poison
• How did some people link Aristotle to Alexander's death?

  They say that Aristotle advised Antipater to arrange Alexander;s death and that the poison was provided entirely through his efforts
• Aristotle


  - most well known Greek philsopher

  - chosen because P didn't trust anyone else

  - ethical and political philosphy's

  - secret and deeper doctrines

  - interested in learning and was a keen reader

  - military skills and protection

  - taught him geography which gave him his love of the world

  - philosophies to respect other cultures

  - cunning and technical mind which led to great developments in engineering e.g "mole" and torsian catapults
• Philip


  - inherited professional army who were a skilled phalanx

  - father always away so distant competitive

  - at age 16 he took part in battle against Chaeronia, defeated the Magi captured the city and settled a mixed population there

  - taught him military skills

  - taming of Boucephalus
• Olympias


  - taught him about eastern culture and religion which would possibly explain his acceptance of Persian customs

  - close relationship as father away fighting

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