Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon also well known as Alexander the Great was a King of the Ancient Greek Kingdom of Macedon. Alexander received the epithe from the Romans who admired him. Alexander took the role of his father Phillip after he was stabbed by one of his bodyguards in 336 B.C. at a wedding banquet. Alexander was trained in Philosophy by Aristotle; he was his classical Greek teacher when he was in school at Miezaat at the young age of 13. Alexander established a city and led for thirteen years, he perfected Macedonia military style the phalanx. He took a 50,000 person army on a 12 year march across the continent and conquered lands unknown and unseen by the greeks. Alexander conquered the Persian Empire, including Syria, Phoenicia, Judea, Gaza, Egypt, Bactria, and Mesopotamia and extended his own empire as far as western india. Alexander did a lot in such a short period of time of 13 years, he died at the battle of Babylon.
2. What can one learn about the values of
society based on their views of greatness?
One can learn about the values of society based on their views of greatness is that if you want to be viewed as great you can't be look bad, you want your society to look good and appeal good just like macedonia did. The reason macedonia is so great is because for starters it was the birth of alexander the great and that looked really good over time because of everything alexander accomplished. I think that many values of society are viewed on how great they are by what the did and how the helped society.
3. Do time and distance impact someone's popular perception?
Time and distance impact peoples popular perception definitely because over time people can form different opinion, and they have time to develop thoughts on it and think about if what they did was great for them of if it wasn't good and it didn't help. Over time people can see if what someone did helped the community or things that that or didn't and that leads me to think that yes, time really does impact peoples perception. A good example of someone who became great over time is William Shakespeare, he became famous after he passed. Throughout Williams lifetime he wrote many plays that are still watched today and still talked about. Although his plays are very popular today, william died as just another play-wrighter, and become very known in the mid century.
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In your article i liked how short and simple it was, yet it had quite a lot of details of how he was "great" like how you mentioned the years everything happened so the reader wouldn't get confused on when it happened. In the last question i liked how you used Shakespeare as an example because what you said about him growing into popularity after he died is a very true statement and i recognized what you meant when you wrote it..
ReplyDeleteThe first answer was good the list of countrys gave me scale of hoe large Alexanders conquests were. it was a little hard to follow though
ReplyDeleteI like you post, and I especially like how you compared Alexander to William Shakespeare. That was a great idea that I would have never thought of! It was a very good idea to compare a societies values of greatness with the people associated with the society and how they influence that society to be great.
ReplyDeleteVia your last paragraph-- are you saying that Shakespeare became more popular after his death, just like Alexander? I thought that Alexander was especially popular during his time because of his conquest and victories.
ReplyDeleteI like your comparison to Shakespeare though, I would never have thought of that!
I liked your blog Caroline! It had some good points. you may want to put some links in for your sources though. I was confused in this sentance "be viewed as great you can't be look bad, you want your society to look good and appeal good just like macedonia did." on the "cant be look bad" and "appeal good". Could you explain to me what those phrases are saying?
ReplyDelete@sophiebyers no, i was saying that william shakespear is a person who became more popular over time, saying that yes, time and distance do effect peoples perception.
ReplyDelete@maggiemitchell i meant that it cannot look bad, like the city itself cannot come off looking bad because of how popular they are.
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