I think Alexander the Great should be known as so for many reasons. One reason being that he served as king of Macedonia from 336 to 323 B.C. During his time of leadership, he united Greece, reestablished the Corinthian League and conquered the Persian Empire.
The absolutism of Louis xiv of France and Philip 2 were similar in that the rulers had unlimited power and everyone was a subject of the ruler and owed loyalty and obedience to the ruler. Power was centralized in the monarch. The r<span>ulers also dominated cultural life.</span>
They all have ring-form composition and numerous divine interventions. The setting is about the same and talks about Greek mythology. The struggle is also the same in all of them: to rescue Helen, who is a Greek king from Troy. All of the stories are very similar.