The Origin of Names, Words and Everything in Between by Patrick Foote

Author:Patrick Foote [Foote, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781633538511
Publisher: Mango Media
Published: 2018-08-14T09:31:23+00:00

Historic Titles

Throughout history there have been many people (normally monarchs or leaders) that have earned nicknames and titles. These can take many forms but the ones we are going to look into are titles that take the form of “someone the something” if that makes sense? I’m sure it will once we get into this. Some of these titles have been earned due to the heroic and amazing feats they achieved throughout their life. While some of these names have been earned for…less flattering reasons. Let’s look at how some interesting people earned their interesting title.

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

Alexander the Great was King of Macedonia between 336 BC to 323 BC (I always forget BC years go backwards) and during his just over ten years of rule he did a huge amount of things that earned him that title of great.

He was considered to be worthy of the title great from an early age; his father Phillip chose none other than perhaps the most famous philosopher of all time, Aristotle, to be his son’s personal tutor. He was the only one who could mount and tame the wild horse Bucephalus that his father bought, not through strength however but through wits. Alexander realised that this horse was merely afraid of its own shadow (yes, it’s believed that’s where the phrase comes from) so all he did was turn the horse, so it was facing the Sun. He also solved the mystery of the Gordian Knot. A knot that was deemed unable to untangle. Alexander saw others fail to untie it so he simply sliced it down the middle. This has since become a fable for thinking outside the box.

Yet perhaps the key thing that truly made him great was his military prowess. In fifteen years of conquest, Alexander never lost a single battle. His military tactics were so good they are still studied in the military to this day! In fact his death remains somewhat of a mystery; some say he died of natural causes and some say he was poisoned! Either way he died at just thirty-two years old, but had done enough in his short life to earn himself the title of great.

CATHERINE THE GREAT

Aside from Alexander, many others have been blessed with the title of great throughout history. Including this wonderful woman of history, Catherine the Great. Catherine the Great was the longest reigning female monarch in Russian history. But while she was most certainly great, that’s perhaps the only truthful part of her title. First off she wasn’t actually Russian, and she wasn’t even called Catherine!

She was actually born in Prussia (yes it’s just a coincidence that it sounds like Russia) in 1729 as Princess Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst. It was when she married Peter III of Russia (who wasn’t king when they were wed) that she started her ascent as ruler of all of Russia and took on the name Catherine while Peter was Tsar and Catherine was just his empress wife. He wasn’t the best of Tsars to say the least.

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