Реферат: Alexander III Essay Research Paper Alexander IIIAccording

ruling class. They would then impose laws or rules to promote hellenization.

Also in these cities gymnasiums were set up. Gymnasiums were the center of most

Greek cities. What better way to make Persian cities similar to Greek cities

than by setting up institutions such as these.

Another deliberate way that Alexander tried to hellenize had to do with

setting up a school. Alexander recruited 30,000 Persian boys to enroll in this

school to learn Greek and Greek ways of life.

I think the most effective way that Alexander hellenized had to due with

his army. First he let Persians into his army. These new members of his army

would have to learn how to speak Greek to understand orders. The Persians would

also pick up Greek customs from being in the camps with Alexander’s army.

Secondly, Alexander encourages his soldiers to marry Persian women. Alexander

himself had Persian wives. There was even a mass marriage in Susa, where

Alexander married 80 of his top officials to Persian women.

Why would a Persian want to become Greek? Well, there are six main

reasons. It would help to know what’s going on. To achieve unity. If you

wanted to join army, it would be necessary. You would need it for trade.

Necessary to abide by the Greek laws. Maybe they weren’t nationalistic at

all,and had no problems with changing.

Although Alexander tried to Hellenize Persia what actually happened was

a Persianization of Alexander. Alexander began to take on Persian ways. He may

have been doing this for political reasons. Maybe he hoped that the Persians

would respond better to a Persian king than a Greek one.

One of the things that Alexander things was take the title of “Great

King” and all the things that go along with it. Alexander wanted to be

worshipped as a God and even claimed to be descended from divinity. He wanted

everybody to engage in proskynesis, that is the act of bowing before the king.

The Persians were more than happy to do this but it caused problems between

Alexander and the Macedonians in his court. That is another thing that