Pella
Greece
Capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedon and birthplace of Alexander the Great. From this once-modest city, Philip II and his son launched the conquest that changed the ancient world.
Associated figures
Aristotle
Aristotle was the most wide-ranging intellect of the ancient world, a philosopher who made foundational contributions to logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, biology, physics, poetics, and rhetoric. A student of Plato and tutor of Alexander the Great, he founded the Lyceum in Athens and created the framework of systematic inquiry that shaped Western and Islamic thought for two millennia.
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great was the Macedonian king who, between 334 and 323 BCE, conquered the Persian Empire and extended Greek power from Egypt to India, creating the largest empire the ancient world had yet seen. His campaigns spread Greek culture across a vast area, inaugurating the Hellenistic age and reshaping the political geography of the ancient world for centuries.