the ledger of connections
The Connections of Alexander the Great
Macedonian king who built an empire from Greece to India by age 30 Every person recorded alongside Alexander the Great in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Alexander the Great in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Philip II of Macedon, Olympias
- Spouses
- Roxana, Stateira, Parysatis II
- Children
- Alexandros IV of Macedon, Heracles of Macedon
- Siblings
- Europa of Macedon, Philip III of Macedon, Caranus, Cleopatra of Macedon, Cynane, Thessalonike of Macedon
- Teachers
- Aristotle, Anaximenes of Lampsacus
- Influenced by
- Aristotle
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 356 BCE to 323 BCE.
Ancient era
Demosthenes
384 BCE – 322 BCE
Classical Athenian statesman and orator (384–322 BC)
Ancient era
Plato
427 BCE – 347 BCE
Athenian philosopher, founder of the Academy and author of the Republic
Ancient era
Aristotle
384 BCE – 322 BCE
Greek philosopher and polymath, tutor of Alexander, father of formal logic
Ancient era
Diogenes of Sinope
412 BCE – 323 BCE
4th-century BC Greek Cynic philosopher
Ancient era
Epicurus
342 BCE – 270 BCE
Ancient Greek philosopher
Ancient era
Zeno of Citium
334 BCE – 263 BCE
Greek philosopher, founder of Stoicism
Ancient era
Euclid
b. c. 333 BCE
Ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)
Ancient era
Philip II of Macedon
c. 385 BCE – 336 BCE
King of Macedon from 359 to 336 BC
Ancient era
Ptolemy I Soter
c. 365 BCE – c. 285 BCE
Macedonian general, ruler of Egypt
Ancient era
Mencius
372 BCE – 289 BCE
Chinese Confucian philosopher (372–289 BC)
Ancient era
Chandragupta Maurya
340 BCE – 297 BCE
Founder of the Maurya Empire (350–295 BCE)
Ancient era
Chanakya
375 BCE – 283 BCE
Ancient Indian teacher and strategist who authored the foundational manual on political economy