What if Alexander the Great Had Lived? An Alternative History of the Macedonian King and His Empire by Charles River Editors

Author:Charles River Editors
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Charles River Editors
Published: 2020-04-08T00:00:00+00:00

A coin depicting Alexander’s son

If, instead of this sad sequence of events, Alexander had been alive to protect and even raise his own son, at least until his teens, the young Alexander may have been able to rule his father’s kingdom. Macedonian boys grew up educated and trained in hunting and warfare. With Alexander’s own background as a pupil of Aristotle and lover of classic Greek scholars, he would certainly have given his own son the same background. His own abilities as both a warrior and a general were unparalleled, yet there is a solid case to be made for their inheritability, as Alexander the Great’s own father, Philip II, had first possessed them. Philip, not even a likely candidate to assume the throne of Macedonia considering how far down he was on the line of succession, enjoyed the same combination of careful education, charisma, skill, and presence that sent Alexander to fame and success, and he had far less raw material from which to start. When Philip came to power, the Macedonian nation was in a poor state of affairs. Despite their war-like culture, they had no standing army and no way to combat the raids launched by neighboring city-states that constantly drained their resources. Philip cleverly restructured the fighting style of Macedonia to take advantage of his strengths and remaining resources, and trained a standing army that went on to sweep through the opposition and conquer all of Greece, pulling the city-states together under a forced hegemony with Philip leading.[8]

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