... that it has challenged the minds of men ever since. Alexander was born to conquer the world. His life was bold and from beginning to end, it was etched with dramatic clarity. Every important event in his life brought him one step closer to fulfilling his ambition. He was the first leaders, like Caesar and Napoleon, who partly be accident and partly by design, set out to gather the whole world into their fists, unify it, rule it and enlighten it. But unlike the other great giants of history, Alexander was a shooting star whose blaze of glory ended with his death, at not quite thirty-three years old... Alexander was born in 356 BC to King Philip of Macedonia and his wife, Olympias. On the day of Alexander's birth, Philip was away in battle. A courier brought Philip the message of his son's birth, along with two other messages - Philip's horse ...

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