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Alexander the Great
Ἀλέξανδρος Γ' ὁ Μακεδών grc Alexander Magnus la
King of Macedonia and conqueror of Achaemenid Persia (356–323 BC)
- Child of Philip II of Macedon and Olympias
- Married to Roxana, Stateira, Parysatis II
- Dated 20 July 356 BCE – 10 June 323 BCE
king of Macedonia
pharaoh
Offices on record
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Roles and affiliation
Holding an office is not parentage and not discipleship.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Belonged to
Offices held 2
- 336 BCE – 323 BCE king of Macedonia Succeeded Philip II of Macedon · Succeeded by Alexandros IV of Macedon , Philip III of Macedon
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Family
The family of Alexander the Great
Parents, spouses and children as the records give them.
Documented family only. A teacher, a successor or a patron is never drawn in this tree.
The family as a list · 18
Family 18
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching · a religious affiliation held by the whole house · continuous rule · a marriage · a shared religious affiliation
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- child of (mother) Olympias mother of Alexander the Great
- child of (father) Philip II of Macedon King of Macedon from 359 to 336 BC
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of the house Argead dynasty dynasty of ancient Macedonia -
parent of (father) Alexandros IV of Macedon King of Macedonia from 323/2 to 309 BC - parent of (child) Heracles of Macedon illegitimate son of Alexander the Great
- partner of Bagoas young Persian eunuch, favourite of Alexander the Great
- partner of Barsine 4th-century BC Persian/Greek noblewoman
- partner of Campaspe mistress of Alexander the Great
- partner of Hephaestion Macedonian nobleman and general, best friend of Alexander the Great (c. 356–324 BC)
- sibling of (half) Caranus son of Philip II, half-brother of Alexander the Great (died 336 BC)
- sibling of Cleopatra of Macedon 4th-century BC Macedonian princess and queen regent of Epirus
- sibling of (half) Cynane Half-sister of Alexander the Great (c.357–323 BC)
- sibling of (half) Europa of Macedon half-sister of Alexander the Great
- sibling of (half) Philip III of Macedon king of Macedonia
- sibling of (half) Thessalonike of Macedon Macedonian princess (353/2 or 346/5 BC – 295 BC)
- married to Parysatis II wife of Alexander the Great
- married to Stateira Daughter of Darius III, died 323 BC
- married to Roxana Bactrian princess and wife of Alexander the Great
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
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Alexander the Great king of Macedonia and conqueror of Achaemenid Persia (356–323 BC) Texts
In the texts
Works this figure appears in. A work’s date is the source’s, not this figure’s.
Also in films, games and series: Civilization V, Civilization VI
Connections
How Alexander the Great connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Identification 1
What this means
One figure treated as another in some context. Not literal identity in all contexts, and usually a claim by a third party.
Does not imply literal identity in all contexts · that either tradition made the identification
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Documented influence 1
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
29 statements on this record
- 7 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 22 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 5 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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