Alexander I of Macedon
historical figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 16 anchored passages
Alexander · Alexander son of Amyntas · Alexander the Macedonian · an ancestor of Philip's line · the Macedonian
in the texts
The Histories
Son of Amyntas who orchestrates the killing of the Persian envoys after their conduct toward Macedonian women, later proven a Greek at Olympia.
With that, Alexander seated each of his Macedonians next to a Persian, as though they were women, and when the Persians began to lay hands on them, they were killed by the Macedonians.
No long time afterwards the Persians made a great search for these men, but Alexander had cunning enough to put an end to it by the gift of a great sum and his own sister Gygaea to Bubares, a Persian and the general of those who were looking for the slain men.
Alexander then took as many beardless men as there were women, dressed them in the women's clothes, and gave them daggers.
Second Philippic
A Macedonian ancestor of Philip who conveyed the Great King's proposal to Athens' ancestors.
For I suppose he learns from history and from report that your ancestors, when they might, at the price of submission to the Great King, have become the paramount power in Greece, not only refused to entertain that proposal, conveyed to them by Alexander, an ancestor of Philip’s line, but chose to quit their homes and endure every hardship, and thereafter wrought those deeds which all men are alwa …