Alexander the Great-History (356-323 BC)

Alexander the Great was the son of a very successful soldier, politician and King, Philip II of Macedonia. At 20 years of age he became king himself after his father's assassination. The bonus in his inheritance was the Macedonian army, an instrument of war that was unparalleled for that age. With his mighty army in one hand and his bravery, wisdom and great education Aristotle on the other, he built an empire that stretched from, the Ionian Sea to Northern India and throughout these lands he spread Greek ideas, civilization and customs.

In 335B.C. as general of the Greeks in a campaign against the Persians, originally planned by his father, he carried out a successful campaign against the defeating Thracains, penetrating to the Danube River. On his return he crushed in a single week the threatening Illyrians and then hastened to Thebes, which had revolted. He took the city by storm and razed it, sparing only the temples of the gods and the houses of the Greek lyric poet Pindar, and selling the surviving inhabitants, about 8000 in number, into slavery. Alexander's promptness in crushing the revolt of Thebes brought the other Greek states into instant and abject submission.

Near the point of his death Alexander began to believe he was a god so he begin to tell his people that he was descend from Hercules by printing coins that had them both on them. His mother also told him that a serpent had impregnated her rather then his father adding to his thoughts that he was a god. also before his death he had some of his cities worship him as a god. In the true spirit of Alexander, we combine traditional Greek hospitality and an all conquering food and drink menu comprising of delicious cuisine and fine local wines.