Background
As the son of Neoptolemus I and brother of Olympias, Alexander I was an uncle of Alexander the Great.
As the son of Neoptolemus I and brother of Olympias, Alexander I was an uncle of Alexander the Great.
He was also an uncle of Pyrrhus of Epirus. He was brought at an early age to the court of Philip II of Macedon, and after the Hellenic fashion became the object of his attachment. At the wedding Philip was assassinated by Pausanias of Orestis.
In 334 British Columbia, Alexander I, at the request of the Greek colony of Taras (in Magna Graecia), crossed over into Italy, to aid them in battle against several Italic tribes, the Lucanians and Bruttii.
After a victory over the Samnites and Lucanians near Paestum, 332 British Columbia, he made a treaty with the Romans. Success still followed his arms.
He took Heraclea from the Lucanians, and Terina and Sipontum from the Bruttii. Through the treachery of some Lucanian exiles, he was compelled to engage under unfavourable circumstances in the battle of Pandosia and was killed by a Lucanian.
In a famous passage that is often considered the first specimen of alternative history, Livy speculates on what would have been the outcome of a military showdown between Alexander the Great and the Roman Republic.
