What are Alexander the Great's weaknesses?

Answer 1

His strengths:

1) His vision and his drive to succeed

2) His leadership skills (This is a man who was able to encourage tens of thousands of men to willingly join him and then march, on foot, for over 20,000 miles as they made their way eastward. At some points, his army/traveling caravan consisted of approximately, 150,000 people (women included, who served as cooks, etc. for the men). Often, many men from the foreign lands they came across were so enamoured with Alexander that they too willingly joined his army.

3) His military strategies. He never lost a battle he fought.

His weaknesses:

1) He liked to drink way too much and would have enormous drinking parties. This is one likely way that he died. (other reasons are probable too)

2) His personality was too eccentric for those people around him after a while. Right before he died, he was beginning to lose the absolute loyalty of those people near him.

3) His interest in integrating/intermarrying different cultural groups with the Greeks did not sit well with many of his native countrymen, who believed that the ethnic people they encountered were insubordinate to the Greeks.

4) His enormous dreams and plans to continue conquering new territories would lead to his eventual undoing. Immediately after his death, his Companions divided up his massive empire amongst themselves.

Answer 2

Some historians believe Alexander killed his general in a fit of drunkenness—a persistent problem that plagued him through much of his life. Alexander struggled to capture Sogdia, a region of the Persian Empire that remained loyal to Bessus.

Kingdom: Macedonia, Achaemenid Empire

Parents: Olympias, Philip II of Macedon

Answer 3

His chief ones were heavy use/abuse of alcohol, and a fiery temper. Imagine a hot-headed twenty year old, vain and egotistical as they are, that had the power of life or death over you!

Answer 4

A fever of unknown origin.