Alexander the Great
       n : king of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia;
           founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC) [syn: Alexander]
  Alexander the Great
     the king of Macedonia, the great conqueror; probably represented
     in Daniel by the "belly of brass" (Dan. 2:32), and the leopard
     and the he-goat (7:6; 11:3,4). He succeeded his father Philip,
     and died at the age of thirty-two from the effects of
     intemperance, B.C. 323. His empire was divided among his four
     generals.