The greatest conquerer who lived. He conquered the known world by age 33. He never lost a battle.
- Mother is of high status (Queen, Famous Star, Heiress, Nobility)
- Hero is first of mother's children
- Mortal father is of equal or higher status than mother
- Mortal parents are related
- Conception/birth is unusual or miraculous
- An attmept is made to kill the Hero near birth by a near relative
- The Hero is raised away from his mortal fathers homeland
- One or both parents are absent during childhood
- Coming of age involves defeating a monster
- Special Weapons/Items are left for the Hero before he is born that only he can access
- Dispute or unusualness over inheritance
- Prophecy regarding the Heros fate
- Hero is reputed son of a god (does not apply, historical only)
- Scion(God) ancestors
- Famous Tutor
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- Olmpias is a princess of Epirus
- Yes
- Phillip is King of Macedonia
- Both descended from Achilles
- Olympias found laying with a serpent. Delphi predicted correctly that Phillip should one day lose that eye with which he presumed to peep through that chink of the door, when he saw the god, under the form of a serpent, in the company of his wife (Ammon)
Olympias claimed Zeus impregnated her while she slept beneath and oak.
Born the day Temple of Artemis at Ephesus burned (presumably Artemis was attending the birth)
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- Taming of Bucephelous
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- Nobles of Macedon wanted a prince of "pure Macedonian blood". No not really.
- Night before wedding Olympias drempt thunderbolt fell on her which kindled a great fire,
whose divided flames dispersed themselves all about,
and then were extinguished.
Phillip drempt he sealed up his wife's body with a seal of a lion
meaning that the queen was with child of a boy, who would one day prove
as stout and courageous as a lion.
- Reputed son of Zeus Ammon
- Hercules(Zeus), Achilles(Thetis, both sides of family)
- Aristotle
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