# Alexander of Macedon — The City of God character guide

> Alexander of Macedon in The City of God by Augustine of Hippo.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Alexander

**First appearance:** 0002-part-i-book-i

## Who they are

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

## In the story

### [How Like Kingdoms Without Justice Are to Robberies](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-iv)

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

### [VII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-vii)

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

### [Book V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-book-v)

Cited as an example of a ruler whose empire was not due to fate.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-i-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.](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-x)

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](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xxv)

Cited as the founder of Alexandria, similarly illustrating human agency versus divine creation.

### [XLII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xlii)

Conquered Judea and much of the world; his death led to the division of his kingdom.

### [Chapter XLV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_city_of_god_se/chapters/part-ii-xlv)

Subdued the Jewish nation and offered sacrifices in the temple, though not as a true convert.

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