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Alexander the Great
Alexander
also: Alexander III of Macedon
Alexander III of Macedon (356–323 BC); Seneca cites both his magnanimous trust in his doctor Philip and (in Book 3) his murderous rages.
Reading notes
- On Benefits §1.13.1 Alexander of Macedon
Alexander the Great (356–323 BC), conqueror of the Persian empire; Seneca treats his vanity and bloodlust as the opposite of Hercules's benefaction.
- On Benefits §5.4.4 Alexander
Alexander the Great (356–323 BC), king of Macedon and conqueror of the Persian empire; here the man who 'possessed all things' yet was poorer than Diogenes.
- On Mercy §1.25 Alexander
Alexander the Great (356–323 BC); Seneca arraigns him for throwing his companion Lysimachus to a lion, the type of royal savagery turned beast.
- On the Firmness of the Wise Man §6.8 Alexander
Alexander III of Macedon (356–323 BC), conqueror of the Persian east, who took even the walls of Babylon.
- On Anger §2.2 Alexander
Alexander the Great (356–323 BC); his hand moving to his weapons at Xenophantus' music illustrates an involuntary stir prompted by sound.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §6.53.10 Alexander
Alexander the Great (356--323 BC), king of Macedon and conqueror of the Persian empire; here the type of the master who dictates terms rather than receiving them.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §14.91.17 Alexander
Alexander the Great (356–323 BC), king of Macedon; here the type of boundless ambition rebuked by the smallness of the earth he had seized.
- Natural Questions §3.pr.5 an Alexander
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), king of Macedon and conqueror of the Persian empire; for Seneca a type of the destroyer made falsely glorious by slaughter.