Alexander The Great: Alexander The Great Leader

A leader is defined as a person who holds command over a group of people. A great leader is someone who commands over his people with grace, authority, and adaptability. Alexander the Great came to power following the murder of his father in 336 BCE. At the young age of twenty years old, Alexander was thrusted into power, now in control of Macedon. Until his own death, Alexander would engage in battles, negotiations and takeovers that would ultimately define him as a ruler and a man. Throughout his life, Alexander paid extra attention to his relationship with the gods, and how this would define him in adulthood and his death. Alexander the Great achieved as well as lived up to his title due to his pure ruthlessness, loyalty, and malleability

As a ruler, Alexander the Great had aspirations to stretch his empire from coast to coast through a variety of measures. Those tactics included military action as well as conveying his terms and allowing people to accept them and surrender to him. His malleability came into play when the places he sought to conquer did not accept to his terms. This can be seen when Alexander and his army were fighting to overrun the Persian Army. After being informed of another route by a captive, “the king and his tropes filed down into the gorge to arrive behind the Persian lines”. This was a different tactic of war that the Persian had never seen because no one was able to find the alternative route. Due to Alexander’s quick thinking and ability to adapt to the place where he was fighting, the Macedonian army gained the upper hand over the Persians. His malleability can also be seen in the battle of the Elephants where Alexander was put up against a strategy he had never faced prior to the battle in 326 BCE. Alexander did a good job of counteracting what the Indian army felt would be an unbeatable force. He “planned to restrict the creatures’ space as much as possible, forcing back the Indian cavalry”. His ability to think fast and change his army’s attack plans helped the Macedonian army come out of battle successful, not only in the

His ruthlessness allowed him to vastly expand his empire across oceans, and to different coastlines. His loyalty to his army, friends and symbols was a part of his rule that gained him respect from the variety of people that he ruled over and encountered. His ability to change his course of action for the situations he was in and adapt for his own gain proved to help him militarily and strategically as well. Alexander is unique figure of history that took his circumstances and allowed them to take him to a level that an ordinary person could