Alejandro was born in the city of Pella, the ancient kingdom of Macedonia in northern Greece and that has absolutely nothing to do with the Republic of Macedonia today. Born in the shadow of Mount Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece and home of the gods, who were so important in its history as much as it was. For Alexander, the gods like Zeus, Apollo, Dionysus, etc ... were real, and proclaimed himself the son of Zeus. Born on July 20 in the year 356 BC, and it is said that there were at least 3 day omens could not mean anything other than the fact that the child had been born was not a common or ordinary.
Alexander's father was the magnificent King Philip II of Macedonia. One of the great generals of the ancient world, but a small man with enormous charisma, blind and lame, dying alcoholic, womanizer and a few to have 7 wives, but builder and unifier of the Kingdom of Macedonia and founder of one of the two armies most powerful of the Ancient World: the Falange Macedonia.
His mother, Olympia, at age 13, its beauty was that Philip fell in love with her. She was mysterious, hard and mystical. Constantly to rituals to the gods but in a very extravagant, is said to have slept with snakes.
Combining the genius of the father and the mother's character, Alexander forged from small a personality that always made him stand out. His mother claimed descent from Achilles himself, a character that inspired Alexander throughout his life. The Iliad was the favorite book of Alexander and in fact always slept with under his pillow. Achilles was the hero of Alexander as Herakles (the Latin Hercules) and his life was compared with them and competed to emulate the greatness of both.
A famous anecdote of Alexander the great personality that shows he had since childhood. When he was only 10 years, a very brave horse was brought before King Philip II, it was said that the horse was simply indomitable. The best riders tried to tame it, all failed. Philip thought that the horse was sick or had any control curse and kill him, but just before doing so, her small son Alexander asked permission to try to tame it. Alexander approached the horse and climbed in, and just before the horse began to jump and hover, Alejandro will be turned to face the sun, the young Macedonian had realized that the horse was acting that way because scared of his shadow.
Everyone was stunned that the little son of the king had tamed the horse, his father Philip in return bought it as a gift and Alexander called it "Bucephalus." Philip approached his son, full of joy and said
"Seek another kingdom, my son, Macedonia is too small for you"
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