Alexander the Great died on 10 June 323 BCE in Babylon, aged 32. A king of Macedonia, Alexander was the son of Philip II and was tutored in his youth by Aristotle. He became king at twenty and launched an invasion of the Persian Empire, defeating Darius III at Issus and Gaugamela, conquering Egypt, where he founded Alexandria, and reaching as far as the Indus valley. His army, however, refused to go farther east, and he turned back. He died in Babylon, probably of illness, at the age of thirty-two. His empire broke up among his generals, but his conquests spread Greek culture across the Near East in what is called the Hellenistic age.
Before and after
- from 323 BCE to 322 BCELamian War
- 323 BCEFarnese Hercules
- from 323 BCE to 30 BCEHellenistic period
- 323 BCEConstruction of Temple of Ephesian Artemis
- 10 June 323 BCEDeath of Alexander the Great
- from 322 BCE to 74 BCEBithynia
- from 322 BCE to 185 BCEMaurya empire
- 322 BCEDeath of Aristotle
- c. 320 BCERise of pyrrhonism
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The era
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