Ancient Greek king Alexander III of Macedon is best known as the moniker "the Great." ...

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A new Netflix series about the life of Alexander the Great, which includes scenes of him with a male lover, has faced criticism from some Greek officials, and some historians say that although the ...

Experts have identified a site in northwest Turkey as that of the Battle of the Granicus, a major victory for Alexander the Great. The defeat of the Persians in 334 B.C. at that location provided a ...

Ongoing excavations in northern Greece are shedding light on the early years and education of Alexander the Great—and the ...

Netflix’s new docu-drama series, Alexander: The Making of a God, has sparked backlash from “anti-woke" influencers who are offended that the series depicts Alexander the Great in a homosexual ...

Plutarch was an ancient Greek biographer, who, among others, wrote about Alexander the Great. His works were powerfully influential.

The school where Alexander the Great was educated by Aristotle more than 2,300 years ago has been uncovered in the ancient ...

Alexander the Great grew so mythologized over the centuries that even his tears were reinterpreted—from lamenting unconquered ...

One October morning in 336 B.C., the small theater at Aigai, the ceremonial center of ancient Macedonia, began to fill with honored guests. They had come from across Greece and the Balkans to attend ...

Alexander the Great visited the city of Troy while on his campaign against the Persian Empire. What did he do while he was there?