Having defeated Darius during this period, Alexander of Macedon began to reign. Therefore, the times of the Macedonian kings can be computed as follows: Alexander, eighteen years. Clement of Alexandria (c. 195, E), 2.329.
“Look! Another beast like a leopard.” In mentioning a leopard, he refers to the kingdom of the Greeks, over whom Alexander of Macedon was king. . . . “The beast also had four heads.” When the kingdom of Alexander was exalted, grew, and acquired a name over the whole world, his kingdom was divided into four principalities. For, when near his end, Alexander divided his kingdom among his four colleagues of the same nationality: Seleucus, Demetrius, Ptolemy, and Philip. Hippolytus (c. 205, W), 5.189.
In the reign of Alexander of Macedon, the [Jews] received no injury from him. This was even though they refused to take up arms against Darius because of certain covenants and oaths. They say that on that occasion, the Jewish high priest, clothed in his sacred robe, received homage from Alexander. For Alexander declared that in his sleep he had beheld an individual clothed in such a robe. And [in his dream] the man announced to him that he was to be the conqueror of all of Asia. Origen (c. 248, E), 4.565.
Did we produce and stir into action the cause by which one youth, starting from Macedonia, subjected the kingdoms and peoples of the East to captivity and to bondage? Arnobius (c. 305, E), 6.415.