Alexander The Great

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Term Paper Title	Alexander The Great
# of Words	1966
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	7.86

Alexander the Great
     Alexander was born on or around July 20, 356 B.C. to Philip and Olympias.  Like all Macedonians, Alexander liked his liquor.  His fondness for wine also caused some of his outbursts of rage.  Alexander liked drama, the flute and the lyre, poetry and hunting.  What he truly wanted in his life was glory and valor, rather than easy living and riches.  To say the least, Alexander matured early. A famous anecdote describes Alexander skillfully receiving Persian envoys in Philip's court while Philip was out inspecting his troops.  Alexander is said to have impressed the envoys more than Philip would have.  This incident would have happened when Alexander was about five or six.
     Philip and Olympias saw the potential greatness in the boy and arranged for his education.  His first teacher was the harsh Leonidas, a strict disciplinarian who instilled in Alexander his ascetic nature which became famous during his Persian and Indian expeditions, where he would live simply, very much like his troops.  Leonidas was replaced with Lysimachus, who taught Alexander to play the lyre, and taught him an appreciation for the fine arts of music, poetry, and drama.  When he was 13, his parents hired Aristotle to be his personal tutor.  The two of them spent time at Mieza, a temple about 20 miles from the palace at Pella.  Under Aristotle, Alexander learned philosophy, ethics, politics, and healing, all of which became of the utmost importance for Alexander in his later life.  The two later became estranged, due to their difference of opinion on the status of foreigners; Aristotle saw them as barbarians, while Alexander sought to merge Macedonians and foreigners.
     The legend of Bucephalus begins with Philoneicus, a Thessalian, bringing a wild horse to Philip for him to buy.  None of the hands were able to handle it, and Philip grew upset at Philoneicus for bringing such an unstable horse to him.  Alexander, however, publicly defied his father and claimed that he could handle the horse.  The bet between Philip and Alexander was that if Alexander could ride the horse, Philip would buy it, if not, Alexander would have to pay the price of the horse which was 13 talents, and enormous sum for a boy of Alexander's age to have.  Alexander apparently noticed that the horse had been shying away from its own shadow, and so he led it gently into the sun, so that its shadow was behind it, all the while stroking it gently and whispering into its ear.  Eventually the horse l...

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