Александр Великий

The article discusses the origins of the cognomen Pompeius Magnus, “the Great”. Contrary to popular belief, it is not a reference to the image of Alexander the Great. No ancient author speaks about this, and all arguments are constructions of modern researchers. Rather, this name expressed the sincere admiration of the soldiers for the achievements of their young commander. However, at the same time, the nickname was picked up by flatterers from Pompey's retinue, who skillfully played on his excessive ambition, which from his youth was Pompey’s weak side.

Вес­на 334 г. до н. э. поло­жи­ла нача­ло длив­шим­ся почти десять лет ази­ат­ским похо­дам Алек­сандра Вели­ко­го. В их резуль­та­те древ­не­во­сточ­ный мир, объ­еди­нен­ный в Пер­сид­ском цар­стве, пал под натис­ком македон­ской армии, а на месте импе­рии Ахе­ме­нидов была созда­на новая миро­вая дер­жа­ва, бо́льшая по сво­ей терри­то­рии, чем ее пред­ше­ст­вен­ни­ца.

Interrelations between Macedonia and Scythia in the 30th years of IV cent.BC are discussed here. The decade of these contacts may be divide into 3  phases. Events of each of this phase had a military character.  First of them included the Scythian-Macedonian war 339 BC. Following was the North campaign of Alexander Great against barbarian tribes had been living in the Bas-Danube (335 BC).