Part one of term paper
The greatest conqueror of all times perhaps, was a force to be reckoned with. Never losing a single battle, he will be heralded for all time as a master general and leader. His parents were King Philip of Macedonia and Olympia. Philip was the great king who united Greece and Macedonia into one nation Philip immediately arranged for the gre ...

Part two of term paper
... but she greatly influenced him for the better. She believed that she had been impregnated by the god Zeus in the form of a snake. She also made Alexander believe that he was a descendant of Achilles. Because of the affiliation that Alexander thought he had with Achilles, Alexander carried a copy of the Iliad with him wherever he went. It is also supposed that Olympia played a part in the assassination of Alexander's father Philip. Within Alexander's childhood lay the beginning's of a true warrio ...