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Alexander of Macedon

Macedonian conqueror who created a vast empire, discussed in historical examples.

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Also known as Alexander

Alexander of Macedon shows up with force in How Like Kingdoms Without Justice Are to Robberies. The page is where that presence becomes real.

The great king who questioned a captured pirate about his hostile possession of the sea.

Alexander of Macedon first appears in 0002 part i book i.

In How Like Kingdoms Without Justice Are to Robberies: The great king who questioned a captured pirate about his hostile possession of the sea.

Later, in VII: Macedonian king whose brief but vast empire is mentioned as a later power in the East.

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How Like Kingdoms Without Justice Are to Robberies
The great king who questioned a captured pirate about his hostile possession of the sea.
VII
Macedonian king whose brief but vast empire is mentioned as a later power in the East.
Book V
Cited as an example of a ruler whose empire was not due to fate.
V
Referenced for a letter to his mother revealing that many gods were originally men, similar to Numa's hidden mysteries.
Chapter X: Of the falseness of the history which allots many thousand years to the world’s past.
His letter to his mother Olympias is used as evidence of Egyptian chronological exaggerations.
That God alone is the Creator of every kind of creature, whatever its nature or form
Cited as the founder of Alexandria, similarly illustrating human agency versus divine creation.
XLII
Conquered Judea and much of the world; his death led to the division of his kingdom.
Chapter XLV
Subdued the Jewish nation and offered sacrifices in the temple, though not as a true convert.

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