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Weddings, plots and Obeisance Aim: to understand how Alexander tried re-unifying his Empire and what went wrong. Starter: Whos Who? On the next slides will be the names of key characters (starting off easy and then getting harder). All you have to do is write down WHO they were. Slide 2 Round 1- VERY EASY 1) The Hegemon of all Greece 2) Philip II 3) Olympias 4) Arrian 5) Plutarch 6) Parmenio 7) Darius III Slide 3 Round 2- Still pretty easy 8) Antipater 9) Philotas 10) Cleitus (the Black) 11) Cassander 12) Hephaestion 13) Ptolemy 14) Bessus Slide 4 Round 3- Bit tricky 15) Homer 16) Achilles 17) Pausanius 18) Cleopatra 19) Aristotle 20) Attalus 21) Dionysis Slide 5 Round 4- Harder than a Macedonian Veteran 22) Dimnus 23) Callisthenes 24) Xerxes 25) Mazaeus 26) Colin Farrell 27) Alexander Orgee And finally 28) Bucephalas Slide 6 Answers Swap and mark Slide 7 Round 1- VERY EASY 1) Alexander 2) Alexanders Dad 3) His mother 4) Roman Historian 5) Philosopher (Biographer) 6) Old General 7) King of Persia (likes running away) Slide 8 Round 2- Still pretty easy 8) Left in charge of Macedonia 9) Son of Parmenio 10) Companion- saves his life, killed 11) Son of Antipater 12) Alexanders oldest friend 13) Greek writer used by Arrian+ Cavalry officer. 14) Persian Cavalry officer how betrayed Darius Slide 9 Round 3- Bit tricky 15) Wrote the Illiad- Alexs favourite book 16) Son of a god who vanquished Troy- Alexs hero 17) Philips Assassin 18) Philips last wife 19) Alexs tutor & philosopher 20) Uncle of Cleopatra (bastard incident) 21) Greek god of Drinking and sex Slide 10 Round 4- Harder than a Macedonian Veteran 22) Planned to kill Alex (conspiracy of Philotas) 23) Alexs official scribe/ historian 24) Old king of Persia who the Greeks wanted vengence for. 25) Surrendered Babylon to Alexander 26) Played Alexander (The Irish) 27) Our chief examiner And finally 28) If you didnt get this you need a savage beating! Slide 11 Moving on Between 329-327 B.C Alexander had been fighting a guerrilla war with the eastern Persians. This was taking a toll on his men. The toughest strong hold was the Sogdian Rock. He had also lost Parmenio, Philotas and Cleitus Slide 12 Enter Roxane (Roxana) At the fall of Sogdia, Alexander meets the Sogdian Princess Roxane. She is so beautiful that he allegedly falls immediately in love with her. They are married (in full Persian grandeur) shortly after. How will his army/ companions view the marriage? Slide 13 Reasons for marrying Love To produce and heir Subdue the Eastern Tribes. ProsCons Use this layout. In your books, write down the pros and cons for each motive for his marriage. Slide 14 The Pages Conspiracy Shortly after there is another plot against Alexanders life. This was a plot by his pages (attendants) and Callisthenes- his official scribe/ historian. This was a plot by his pages (attendants) and Callisthenes- his official scribe/ historian. Callisthenes was the grand nephew of Aristotle (who Alexander had recently fallen out with)! Slide 15 The story- Write your own step by step version Sons of Macedonian Nobles could become pages- they were charged with helping Alexander and watching over him at night. Make sure no one stabs me in the night OK Slide 16 One day, Alexander was out hunting When a wild boar charged at him Oh Bugger! Slide 17 Fearing for Alexander, one of the pages- Hermolaus killed the boar Not to worry, I banged im out for you Slide 18 Alexander was furious that Hemolaus killed the boar- He wanted to. How can I be Great if I get saved by a 15 year old?!?! Sorry Alexander had Hemolaus whipped Slide 19 Hemolaus was furious! He swore revenge. Im Bare vexed at Alex He enlisted the help of 3 other pages Well Help Slide 20 They planned to murder Alexander when one of them was guarding him at night. Z Z Z Z Z Mwah ha ha! Slide 21 Annoyingly, that night Alexander stayed up drinking until dawn Another Macedonian The plot was uncovered and the boys were arrested Slide 22 The boys were tortured and said Callisthenes convinced them to kill Alexander. It was Callisthenes who told us to do it, honest! Grass! Slide 23 Alexander believed them as he already thought badly of Callisthenes Bloody Callisthenes, moaning about my Persian ways, and hes the grand nephew of that old fart Aristotle! Typical that he gets boys to do a mans work! Bloody Historians! Slide 24 Everyone was either executed of died in jail HA! Thatll teach those pesky kids! Slide 25 Assessing the conspiracy What does the conspiracy tell us about Alexanders character/ state of mind? What does it tell us about relations in the Macedonian court? Slide 26 Extended Learning Obeisance This was the practice of bowing and kissing the king. Read Arrian 4.10-12 (after the Cleitus bit) How does this help explain the Pages Conspiracy?