ALexander The Great: A True Hero

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It is difficult to provide an exact definition of leadership because every person holds their own opinions. The qualities a leader possesses are not always the same; they can vary according to the time in history he or she lived in, the problems that are occurring throughout that time period, and also the people whom the leader is leading. Alexander the Great possessed the qualities that would enable Greece to establish itself as the greatest power in the known world. His ambitious mind made it possible for him and his soldiers to conquer lands from Greece to India. Being the son of Philip of Macedon, he should have inherited his father's title; however, historians deemed the title of "the Great" more fitting for such an extraordinary person. His courageousness, military intellect, and ambition have proved that he is a definite leader and has the right to be called "Great."

Without the courage that was evident in Alexander, the military may not have been as committed or obedient to him as they were. Besides commanding his men in battles, he also led them into the battles, being always in the front and in the middle of the battle. This showed tremendous bravery because he had the same chance of receiving a fatal wound as

Alexander's ambition to conquer the entire known world makes it obvious that Alexander was such an amazing leader. There were no bounds revealed in Alexander's conquest. He started out just wanting to finish his father's plans of driving out the Persians from Asia Minor, but he gradually took over more and more of the Persian's land, until he eventually conquered the entire Persian Empire. Alexander may have conquered the rest of Asia, past India, if it were not for his men complaining of severe exhaustion. He was persistent in his conquest, but without his army, he could do nothing more. "When Alexander announced plans to push deeper into India, his troops, exhausted and far from home in a strange land, resisted" (Perry, 96). His ambition has far exceeded the endurance of his men, as well as the amount of supplies for his men. Although Alexander failed to conquer all of Asia, he made a good choice of returning home because of his exhausted troops. Many leaders in history have tried to conquer as much as Alexander did, but they all fall short of the success that Alexander experienced. His ambition as a leader was so great and his conquests so vast, that they have never been duplicated.

his men did. He was the last great military leader to do such a thing. Generals in modern times will usually lead their men from the rear. Although Alexander may have seemed invincible, surely he was not as he did receive wounds from battles. He was wounded in the neck and head at the Granicus River, in the thigh at Issus, and at the shoulder at Gaza. Alexander's courageousness was also shown by lead

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