Alexander the GreatBy: Paul Cartledge At eighteen Alexander had conquered mainland Greece, was crowned King of Macedonia at twenty and by twenty six he had made himself master of the once mighty Persian Empire. By the time of his death, aged only thirty three, in 323BCE he was ruler of the known world and was being worshipped as a god by the Greeks, both at Babylon, where he died, and further west, among the Greek cities of the Asiatic seaboard. The fruit of a lifetimes