Macedonian king (359-336), who initiated the conquest of Greece (347 a. C.) financed by the gold mines of the Pangeu region, which with the submission (356 a. C.) definitively transformed Macedonia into the greatest power of ancient Greece and laid the foundations for the Hellenic expansion, carried out by his son Alexander III, Alexander the Great. Son of Amyntas III, in childhood he witnessed the disintegration of the Macedonian kingdom, while his older brothers Alexander II and Perdicas III fought against the insubordination of the local aristocracy, the attack on Thebes and the invasion of the Illyrians. He succeeded Perdiccas III on the Macedonian throne (359 BC. C.) and, after reestablishing and even expanding the country's borders, consolidated them through the establishment of colonies and seized the mining region of Pangeu, where he got the gold needed to mint his own currency, the Philippines.
He subjected the nobility to his authority and organized the army on new bases, creating the phalanx of heavy infantry, inspired by the ancient formations of Epaminondas, and equipped it with numerous war. With the kingdom stabilized, he set out to extend his hegemony to all of Greece. Aided by his son Alexander III at the head of the cavalry, he defeated the Greeks at the Battle of Chaeronea and the Assembly of the League of Corinth established the constitution which made it sovereign of the Hellenic states (338 The. C.), submitting the Greek world to its unified command. The league proposed war against Persia, traditional enemy of the Greeks and, in the following year, an army commanded by Parmenion landed in Anatolia, but war operations were interrupted due to his assassination by the nobleman. Pausanias (336 a. Ç.).
He was a great admirer of Greek culture and, years before, he had already decided to educate his son, the future Alexander III, according to with her and thus, he hired Aristotle, the greatest genius of the Academy, the creator of Logic, as the boy's tutor for three years old. Also from the Academy, Menecmo, the creator of the conic sections, was appointed Alexander's Mathematics teacher. With his death, his son and heir, the talented warrior Alexander III, who was only twenty years old, assumed the throne.
Source: Biographies - Academic Unit of Civil Engineering / UFCG
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