Tuesday, October 1, 2019

Alexander the Great, Not Grape, Great

Alexander the Great started out his early years raised by a nurse and later was instructed by two teachers, one of who was the famed Aristotle. You all know the story of how he tamed the untamable horse with a won't write here mostly because I can't write it. However, after a time, Phillip divorced his wife, Alexander's mother, and married some other princess. Alexander was insulted at the wedding banquet when one of the attendees suggested that his mother had been unfaithful. So much so, he threw a goblet at the courtier and left the court. He went to his mother's relatives in a small kingdom near Macedon. However, he returned when he heard that his father was dead. So began his great campaign against his enemies the Persians.

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