Alexander Inopos
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Alexander Inopos
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
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Alexander Inopos, Louvre Museum, Paris.
Bust of Alexander the Great known as "the Inopos" found at the island of Delos. An original Greek marble sculpture from the 4th quarter of the 2nd century BC.
Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great succeeded his father at the age of 20. He spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through western Asia and northeast Africa, and by the age of thirty, he had created one of the largest empires of the ancient world, stretching from Greece to northwestern India. He was undefeated in battle and is widely considered one of history's most successful military commanders.
During his youth, Alexander was tutored by Aristotle until age 16. After Philip's assassination he subdued Greece and led the Greeks in the conquest of Persia. Alexander broke the power of the Achaemenid Empire in a series of decisive battles, most notably the battles of Issus and Gaugamela and conquered the Persian Empire in its entirety. Alexander then invaded India but eventually turned back at the demand of his homesick troops. He died in Babylon in 323 BC, the city that he planned to establish as his capital, without executing a series of planned campaigns beginning with the invasion of Arabia.
Alexander III of Macedon died at the age of 32, after having consolidated the greatest empire to that time, reaching from Europe to India and from Kyrgyzstan to Egypt. Many of these lands remained under Macedonian-Greek rule for the following 200-300 years.
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