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Alexander The Great Research Paper

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Alexander III, who went down in history as Alexander the Great, was the son and successor of Philip II. He was born in Pella on 20 or 21 July in 356 B.C. (R. L. Fox, Alexander The Great, 1973). For about three years, from 343 B.C. to 341 B.C., the Greek philosopher Aristotle was his teacher. He taught him natural sciences, art, medicine and the Greek language. Alexander was a good student. His skills in rhetoric and as musician were praised by Aeschines (389 - 314 B.C.) in a public speech when Alexander was only 10 years old (Aeschines, Against Timarchus, 168). At the age of 12 he met for the first time his famous horse, Bucephalus. The horse had to be bought by his father Philip, but he was about to give up buying it because the beast was
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