Was Alexander the Great Athenian or what?

Question

I'm doing a project for class that is about the greek world and classical era. I need to have 5 different cultures to base my work on. I have something for Judaism and China, but the rest of my book just mentions Greek or Roman. My teacher said Greek can be split up into categories, like Athenian, Spartan, or Persian. But everything just says Alexander the Great is "Greek". So is he Athenian or one of the others, more specifically than greek?

Answer 1

He was a Makedonian-Greek.



The Makedonians were the furthest northern tribe of Greek speaking peoples living on the southern Balkan peninsula during the 1st millennium BC. On Alexander's father's side he was of the royal Argead family who claimed original descent from the Argives (people from the city of Argos), but who had united and ruled the Makedonians as a kingdom for several centuries. His mother was a Molossian-Greek (Molossians were a Greek people living in a region of northwestern Greece called Epirus).



Alexander III (the Great) was born in the mid-4th century BC during a rising period of the Makedonian Kingdom. At this time many of the non-Greek tribes living up and around Makedon were being conquered by Alex's father Philip II, while the Athenian colonists in Chalkidike were heavily influencing the Kingdom's culture. For example the Chalkidikian-born philosopher Aristotle had gone to study in Athens and when he returned Philip hired him to educate his son Alexander.

Answer 2

He was Macedonian - the son of the King of Macedon.

They saw themselves as true Greek - the otehr Greek states saw them as rustic half-breeds.

Answer 3

No, he was not even Greek. He was a Macedonian. Like Cleopatra.

Answer 4

what



he was macedonian