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Alexander I Philhellene Argaead |
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King of Macedonia |
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- «b»http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps32/ps32_270.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_I_of_Macedon
Alexander I«/b» («u»Greek «/u»: was ruler of «u»Macedon «/u» from 498 BC to 454 BC. He was the son of «u»Amyntas I «/u» king of Macedon and «u»Eurydice «/u».
According to «u»Herodotus «/u» he was unfriendly to «u»Persia «/u», and had the envoys of «u»Darius I «/u» killed when they arrived at the court of his father during the «u»Ionian Revolt «/u». However, he was forced to submit to Persia during the invasion of «u»Greece «/u» by Darius' son «u»Xerxes I «/u», and he acted as a representative of the Persian governor «u»Mardonius >«/u» during peace negotiations after the Persian defeat at the «u»Battle of Salamis «/u» in 480 BC. Despite his cooperation with Persia, he frequently gave supplies and advice to the rest of the Greek city states, and warned them of Mardonius' plans before the «u»Battle of Plataea «/u» in 479 BC. After the defeat in Plataea the Persian army, under the command of «u»Artabazus «/u» tried to retreat all the way back to Asia Minor. Most of the 43,000 survivors were attacked and killed by the forces of Alexander at the estuary of the «u»Strymon river «/u». Alexander eventually regained Macedonian independence after the end of the «u»Persian Wars «/u».
Alexander claimed descent from «u»Argive «/u» Greeks and «u»Heracles «/u», although Macedon was considered a "barbaric" state by a minority of Greek tribesmen, whose territories were threatened by its expansion. After a court of «u»Elean «/u» «u»hellanodikai «/u» determined his claim to be true, he was permitted to participate in the «u»Olympic Games [1][2]«/u» possibly in 504 BC«u»[3]«/u» an honor reserved only for Greeks. He modeled his court after «u»Athens «/u» and was a patron of the poets «u»Pindar «/u» and «u»Bacchylides «/u» , who both of them dedicated poems to Alexander«u»[4]«/u». The earliest reference to an Athenian «u»proxenos «/u», who lived during the time of the Persian wars (c. 490 BC), is that of Alexander I of Macedon«u»[5]«/u».
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References
«u»1. ^«/u»«/b» «u»Herodotus «/u» «u»5.22 <http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0126&layout=&loc=5.22>«/u»
«u»«b»2. ^«/u»«/b» «u»Justin «/u»-«u»7.2.14 <http://www.forumromanum.org/literature/justin/texte7.html>«/u»
«u»«b»3. ^«/u»«/b» A History of Macedonia. Volume 2 «u»Review: John Cole <http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8299%28198123%2935%3A3%3C262%3AAHOMV2%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H&size=LARGE&origin=JSTOR-enlargePage>«/u»
«u»«b»4. ^«/u»«/b» Thucydides and Pindar: Historical Narrative and the World of Epinikian Poetry «u»Page 180 <http://books.google.com/books?id=UM-JMDlso7EC&pg=PA180&dq=Pindar+Alexander+son+of+Amyntas&sig=ZtewR7QQub3XfJAPYxNnSPC-jLU>«/u» By Simon Hornblower «u»ISBN 0199249199 «/u»
«u»«b»5. ^«/u»«/b» Hospitality By Conrad Lashley, Paul Lynch, Alison J. Morrison Page 25 «u»ISBN 0080450938 «/u»
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