Comparing Alexander The Great And Alexander The Killer

“Alexander Hunting for A New Past?” By Paul Cartledge and “Alexander the Killer” by Davis Hanson was created as a way to inform people about all the wrong and the right things going on in Hellenistic period. Although both article are about Alexander The Great both writer have their own perception of him. Both articles received both positive and negative responses. The Hellenistic Period was created as a force which would united all Greeks and the west of Europe like Persia, Egypt,Syria and Mesopotamia. Alexander went about handling its role as Europe's great power by establishing alliances with countries in the West in order to create a total assault on any city state if needed. Alexander III of Macedon better known as Alexander the Great. He Was born July 356 BC. Alexander became the king of Macedon after his father Philip II death. With every move he had a mission “To free the Asiatic Greeks from Persian Satraps; to provide the muscle for the lofty ideal of Panhellenism by uniting the squabbling Greeks poleis into a national federation on the mainland; to punish the

Was he was a bloodthirsty monster obsessed with war, or romantic visionary intent on creating a multiethnic world…” (Hunt 118). Through Hanson offers many views on a lot of topics but he focuses mainly on Alexander visionary ideas. One of these ideas were why he destroyed certain city states, which started with Thebes because the refused not to join his army and opt out for independence instead (Hanson 53). Hanson commented on how a king should expand his kingdom and also prevent conflicts in doing so. He stated that a king can gain more land in his empire by using other small cities and states to help him conquer it and anyone in his way will be destroyed. Another idea Hanson focused on was theft. “… Largely the quest for personal glory and theft on continental rather than merely a provincial scale.” (Hanson