Alexander the Great

# Alexander the Great King of Macedon, Pharaoh of Egypt, Lord of Asia. By thirty-two he had conquered more of the known world than any man before or since, stretching his empire from Greece to northwestern India. He was tutored by Aristotle, slept with a copy of the Iliad under his pillow, and named more than twenty cities after himself. History argues endlessly about what he was. What is beyond argument: he reshaped the political geography of three continents before dying of a fever in Babylon.