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Best alexander the great biography.
In 356 BC, a legend was born in a kingdom to the far north of Greece, Macedonia.
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He would be a new kind of empire-builder and he’d take Greek culture deep into Asia.
According to legend, when he was a boy, a wild unbroken horse was brought to his father’s court in Macedonia. The boy begged his father to let him try to tame the beast.
He had noticed that the horse was afraid of its own shadow.
The horse was called Bucephalus and the boy would, of course, grow up to be Alexander the Great.
Alexander was brought up on stories of Homer’s heroes from the Trojan Wars. He was a true child of the Greek golden age.
His father hired the great philosopher, Aristotle, and asked him to create a little school here in a remote part of Macedonia where he spent three years intensively teaching the young Alexander everything from history and geography to mathematics and philosophy, and one of the things that started to entrance Alexander, the stories of the Persians.
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