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Today in class a couple people presented about "Alexander The Great," we will continue and maybe finish the presentations on Monday. I learned the following: King Phillip is the father of Alexander, and they didn't get along with each other. He was also the ming od Macedonia, and had many wives, and had a brilliant military mind. Olympia, was the mother of Alexander, who was an ambitious and violent ruler, and married King Phillip in 357 B.C.E. Zeus was thought to be a man and a god combined, he was one of the greatest military leaders of his time, and the most highly regarded greek god. Also, Olympia taught Alex that Zeus was his father since King Phillip wasn't around. King Phillip was assassinated in 336 B.C. There were two theories these presentation focused on, the first theory is that we was killed by his bodyguard who "liked" him, they say he killed him because of jealousy. The second theory is that Olympia and Alexander killed him. Alexander took over in 334 B.C, there was a huge argument of who would take over, but Alex defeated the Thracians and Triballians, and proved to the people that even though he was young he could still hold power. King Phillips body guard got payed off by the persians. Alex was the king at age 20, he wasn't a good student either, but his favorite book was "The Iliad" he carried the book everywhere he went, people said he even slept with it. He used the book to 'guide his decisions,' and Alex was born in 356 B.C.