Pella, Greece

A picture portraying the birth of Alexander the Great.

On either June 20th or June 26th 356 B.C.E., Alexander the Great was born in Pella, Macedon (now in present day Greece) to King Phillip II of Macedon and Olympias, an Epirote Princess who was the fourth of about seven or eight wives to the King. Both his parents were supposedly related to great figures, such as the father’s relation to Hercules, and Olypias’s connection to Achilles. His father was having a fantastic day full of good news the day that word arrived to him that Olympias had bore a son. Phillip had already heard that day that his horse had won the race in the Olympics and he had just won a battle against the Illyrians, and then the news of his son Alexander’s birth had been the hat trick for the day. Hearing three great things in one day meant that the child would be invincible, and had been given the task of fulfilling prophecies from the day of his birth. During his life, he was raised by the nurse Lanike, then taught by two of the greatest philosophers of all time; Leonidias and Aristotle.

Just skimming the surface of the many places he visited can be found on this map : Alexander the Great