Is Alexander the Great Greek or Persian?

Answer 1

Alexander the great was a Greek from Macedonia as Leonidas was a Greek from Sparta as Pericles was a Greek from Athens. Alexander's father was Philip II of Macedonia and his mother the Mollosian princess from Epirus. Macedonia or Macedon (Greek: Μακεδονία, Makedonía; was an ancient Greek in the northern Greek peninsula of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. Alexander belonged to the Argead dynasty an ancient Greek royal house who were the founders and the ruling dynasty of Macedon from about 700 to 310 BCE. Their tradition, as described in ancient Greek historiography, traced their origins to Argos, in southern Greece, hence the name Argeads or Argives.

Answer 2

Alexander the Great was a Greek from the Northern Greek kingdom of Macedonia.

Answer 3

He was king of Macedonia which was not considered to be Greek. He became Hegemon (leader) of many of the Greek city-states, but seized the Persian Empire and became its king.

Answer 4

Alexander the Great was a Macedonian, which is a similar ethnic group to the Ancient Greeks, but not actually Greek. Macedonians were certainly very different from ethnic Persians.

Answer 5

Macedonian (Greek).