In what ways was Alexander the Great classically “Greek?”?

Answer 1

Alot of people above except for Terry W and axelmavy are wrong!! First of all Greece renamed the Northern part of Greece "MACEDONIA" in 1988!! MACEDONIA was divided after the Balkan Wars 1912-1913!! MACEDONIA's territory(If you look at a map today) Its borders were in todays country MACEDONIA,Bulgaria,Greece and Albania!! These countries signed the Treaty of Bucharest when they divided the country MACEDONIA. The only reason Greece claims that Alexander The Great is Greek is Because the city he was born in falls within Greece's borders today!!! Alexander The Great was taught by a Greek, His Father Philip is MACEDONIAN and his Mother was Greek!! Here is a Short Documentary on Ancient MACEDONIANS and Alexander,
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ek2THOUI1iQ
http://youtube.com/watch?v=coBlWC-bav4
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9El4kKslR00
Please notice how they refer to MACEDONIANS as a separate Nation from the Greeks!!! The Narrator says MACEDONIA a rural land North of Greece!! Notice the diagram when MACEDONIANS fight the Greek Army!! So be careful from the Greek propaganda that has been falsified over many many years!!

Answer 2

Alexander the Great was totally Greek.
He came from the Macedonia in Greece and he has nothing to do with the slavic Macedonia that uses wrongly that name.
His name is totally Greek as his father's name Philippos and his mother's name Olympiada.
The word Macedonia is Greek too.
Alexander the Great believed in the same gods with all the rest of the Greeks and he was raised up with the Greek culture.His teacher was Aristotle.
Alexander the Great was also participated in the ancient olympic games that only Greek could participate.
All those reasons above make him a "classically" Greek.

Answer 3

he spoke greek, he was educated in the greek style, he believed in the greek pantheon. Macedonia was a GREEK city state. The current state of Macedonia has no connection to that past. The slaves living there moved into the region aroudn the 8th century AD. Macedonians today have no more claim to Alexander the great than Americans do over aboriginal cultures

Answer 4

Alexander the Great was born in Greece. He spoke Greek, he worshipped the Greek gods. He was a Greek prince and his father was the King of Macedonia (northern Greece then and now). Although F.Y.R.O.M. (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) uses the name "Macedonia" today, that is incorrect. They used to be Yugoslavia before they broke up country. Alexander moved the kingdom's capital from Vergina to Pella (both Greek cities). In addition, he conquered most of the known world during the time he lived and wanted to unite everyone as a "Hellene" (a Greek) by having his Greek generals marry the foreigners he conquered. That basically sums it up.


The guy above me's full of crap. Ancient (as well as modern) Macedonians were and ARE Greek, just like Athenians, the Spartans, etc. All different regions of Greece.

Answer 5

He was Greek yes. He was from Greek Macedonia.
There are 2 Macedonias you know. The one is Greek and the other is Slavic. Alexander was from the Greek one.
His conquests ushered in centuries of Greek settlement and Greek cultural influence over distant areas, a period known as the Hellenistic Age, a combination of Greek and Middle Eastern culture. Alexander himself lived on in the history and myth of both Greek and non-Greek cultures. After his death (and even during his life) his exploits inspired a literary tradition in which he appears as a legendary hero in the tradition of Achilles.
Also Aristotle was Alexander's tutor and he gave Alexander a thorough training in rhetoric and literature and stimulated his interest in science, medicine, and philosophy.
Alexander's conquests also had long term cultural effects, with the flourishing of Hellenistic civilization throughout the Middle East and Central Asia, and the development of Greco-Buddhist art in the Indian subcontinent. Alexander and his successors were tolerant of non-Greek religious practices, and interesting syncretisms developed in the new Greek towns he founded in Central Asia. The first realistic portrayals of the Buddha appeared at this time; they are reminiscent of Greek statues of Apollo.
Among other effects, the Hellenistic, or koine dialect of Greek became the lingua franca through the so-called civilized world. For instance the standard version of the Hebrew Scriptures used among the Jews of the diaspora, especially in Egypt, during the life of Jesus was the Greek Septuagint translation, which was compiled ca 200 BC by seventy-odd scholars under the patronage of the Macedonian ruler Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Thus many Jews from Egypt or Rome would have trouble understanding the teachings of the scholars in the Temple in Jerusalem who were using the Hebrew original text and an Aramaic translation, being themselves only acquainted with the Greek version. There has been much speculation on the issue whether Jesus spoke Koine Greek as the Gospel-writers, themselves writing in Greek, don't say anything decisive about the matter.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

In many ways.
He was Greek from Greek Macedonia.
He spoke Greek, he build a Greek empire and he modeled his empire in the Greek ways.
A great achievement of him is the city of Alexandria.
The city of Alexandria was named after its founder, Alexander the Great, and as the seat of the Ptolemaic rulers of Egypt, quickly became one of the greatest cities of the Hellenistic world — second only to Rome in size and wealth.
Alexandria was intended to supersede Naucratis as a Greek center in Egypt, and to be the link between Greece and the rich Nile Valley.
Alexandria was not only a center of Hellenism but was also the largest city with a Jewish population in the world. The Septuagint, a translation of the Hebrew Bible, was produced there. The early Ptolemies kept it in order and fostered the development of its museum into the leading Greek university (Library of Alexandria) but were careful to maintain the distinction of its population into three nations: "Greek", Jewish and Egyptian.
We can say that Alexander was an international Greek.
There is also a modern "republic of Macedonia" iwhich s a Slavic country in the middle of the Balkans and it is not related to Alexander.

Answer 8

He was a Greek in the classical sense largely because of his education and philosophy. He was educated by Aristotle, no less. Because he was a big believer in free thought and the Socratic method of reasoning, he did a lot to proliferate the Greek style of philosophy to the far corners of the known world. If Socrates was the fater of Western Philosophy, then Alexander was its paperboy...

Answer 9

There's so many things it would be hard to list them all, but one distinctly Grecian thing about him was his formation tactic in battle.

The pantheon of gods he followed were based in the Greek culture too.

Basically, Macedonia WAS a part of Greece for a time. That's why it's safe to interchange referring to Alexander as EITHER Greek or Macedonian.

Answer 10

Educated in classical greek style. Literature, philosophy, geometry.

Answer 11

Bisexual
Hellenistic Culture
Mind over circumstance
and a lot more but you do the math