While drunk, this man killed one of his officers who had previously saved his life from a crushing hammer blow by throwing a javelin at him.
While drunk, this man killed one of his officers who had previously saved his life from a crushing hammer blow by throwing a javelin at him. This man's military campaigns were chronicled more than four hundred years after his death in his "Anabasis" by Arrian of Nicomedia. Before a battle, this man rejected a proposed night attack by his subordinate Parmenion. After his death in Babylon, this man's generals fought the Wars of the Diadochi, after which they founded independent empires such as the Seleucid and the Ptolemaic Empires. This ruler defeated Darius III at the Battle of Gaugamela, which effectively ended the Achaemenid Persian Empire. For 10 points, name this Macedonian conqueror.
While drunk, this man killed one of his officers who had previously saved his life from a crushing hammer blow by throwing a javelin at him.
Alexander the Great [or Alexander III of Macedon; prompt on Alexander]