KING ALEXANDER III
SINCE 980AD - 1000AD
| The Son Of Gods
KING Constantine
SINCE 182AD - 250AD
| The Emperor-philosopher
KING Tiberius
SINCE 42AD - 100AD
| Great Julius Caesar
KING Claudius
SINCE 20AD - 40AD
| The Vale King
KING ALEXANDER III
| The Son Of Gods
SINCE 980AD - 1000AD
King Alexander III was the son of King Alexander the Great and King Alexander of Macedon. He was born in 980 AD and died in 1000 AD. He was the first king of Sparta.He was born in 356 BCE at Pella in Macedonia, the son of Philip II and Olympias (daughter of King Neoptolemus of Epirus). From age 13 to 16 he was taught by Aristotle, who inspired him with an interest in philosophy, medicine, and scientific investigation, but he was later to advance beyond his teacher’s narrow precept that non-Greeks should be treated as slaves. Left in charge of Macedonia in 340 during Philip’s attack on Byzantium, Alexander defeated the Maedi, a Thracian people. Two years later he commanded the left wing at the Battle of Chaeronea, in which Philip defeated the allied Greek states, and displayed personal courage in breaking the Sacred Band of Thebes, an elite military corps composed of 150 pairs of lovers. A year later Philip divorced Olympias, and, after a quarrel at a feast held to celebrate his father’s new marriage, Alexander and his mother fled to Epirus, and Alexander later went to Illyria. Shortly afterward, father and son were reconciled and Alexander returned, but his position as heir was jeopardized.
KING CONSTANTINE
| The Emperor-philosopher
SINCE 182AD - 250AD
Biography. Crown Prince Konstantinos II competed in sailing at the 1960
Olympics,
winning a gold medal in Dragon class.
He was the son of King Paul, but when he died of cancer in 1964, Prince Konstantinos
succeeded to the Greek crown,
becoming His Majesty Konstantinos II, King of the Hellenes.Constantine II was the last
King
of Greece, reigning from 6 March 1964 until the
abolition of the Greek monarchy on 1
June 1973. Constantine was born in Athens as the only son of Crown Prince Paul and Crown
Princess Frederica of Greece.
Being of Danish descent, he was also born as a prince of Denmark.Constantine was born in
Athens as the only son of Crown Prince Paul and Crown Princess Frederica of Greece.
Being of
Danish descent, he was also born as a prince of Denmark.
As his family was
forced
into exile
during the Second World
War, he spent the first years of his childhood in Egypt and South Africa. He returned to
Greece with his family in 1946
during the Greek Civil War. After Constantine's uncle George II died in 1947, Paul
became
the new king and Constantine
the crown prince. As a young man, Constantine was a competitive sailor and Olympian,
winning
a gold medal in the 1960
Rome Olympics in the Dragon class along with Odysseus Eskitzoglou and George Zaimis in
the
yacht Nireus. From 1964, he
served on the International Olympic Committee.
KING TIBERIUS
| Great Julius Caesar
SINCE 42AD - 100AD
Tiberius’s father, also named Tiberius Claudius Nero, a high priest and
magistrate,
was a former fleet captain for
Julius Caesar. His mother, the beautiful Livia Drusilla, was her husband’s cousin and
may
have been only 13 years old
when Tiberius was born. In the civil wars following the assassination of Julius Caesar,
the
elder Tiberius gave his
allegiance to Mark Antony, Caesar’s protégé. When Augustus, Caesar’s grandnephew and
heir,
fell out with Antony and
defeated him in the ensuing power struggle, the elder Tiberius and his family became
fugitives.
They fled first to
Sicily and then to Greece, but by the time Tiberius was three years old an amnesty was
granted and the family was able
to return to Rome.In 39 BCE Augustus had the power, if not yet the title, of emperor.
Attracted by the beauty of Livia, who was at that
time pregnant with a second son, Augustus divorced his own wife, who was also pregnant,
and,
forcing the elder Tiberius
to give up Livia, married her
KING CLAUDIUS
| The Vale King
SINCE 20AD - 40AD
King Claudius is a fictional character and the main antagonist of William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. He is the brother to King Hamlet, second husband to Gertrude and uncle and later stepfather to Prince Hamlet. He obtained the throne of Denmark by murdering his brother with poison and then marrying the late king's widow. He is loosely based on the Jutish chieftain Feng who appears in Chronicon Lethrense and in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. There has never been an actual Danish king of that name.Claudius is seen at the beginning of the play to be a capable monarch as he deals diplomatically with such issues as the military threat from Norway and Hamlet's depression. It is not until the appearance of King Hamlet's Ghost in the courtyard that the audience questions his motives. During the play's progression he takes a turn for the worse by first resorting to spying, and, when that fails, murder.



