![]() ![]() A vigorous young king, by sheer force of personality and some very shrewd politicking, managed to take his army from Macedonia through Asia Minor, across the Near East, through the Khyber Pass, and to the Hindu Kush with great dreams of unifying a vast empire.Īfter succumbing to a 10-day fever (perhaps brought on by malaria or by less "natural" causes), Alexander the Great died unexpectedly in Babylon in June 323 B.C., leaving a freshly conquered empire of unprecedented breadth and complexity but no designated heir. The tumultuous chain of events that unfolded after the death of Alexander the Great was the original Game of Thrones, with more riches, bloody intrigue, and larger-than-life characters than George Martin or the HBO series could have invented. Museo Archeological Nazionale, Naples (10020) copy of a Greek painting of the late 4th or early 3rd century B.C. Alexander Mosaic, from the House of the Faun (VI, 12, 2), at Pompeii, 2nd century B.C.
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