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=== Alexander the Great ===

=== Alexander the Great ===

Long before his death, Philip II had arranged for Aristotle to tutor his son Alexander, and the remarkable wisdom Aristotle conferred made Alexander the greatest military leader of all time.  We could say that Alexander was homeschooled by this extraordinary tutor!  Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.), as he is known, came closer to conquering the entire world than anyone else before or since.  He mapped out his battles with logical precision and never lost a single one.  He went to sleep at night with Aristotle's marked-up copy of the ''Iliad'', the great work of Greek literature, under his pillow.  He treated his conquered peoples better than Aristotle would have, because Aristotle advised Alexander to treat them like animals.   

Alexander the Great was essentially homeschooled:  Philip II arranged for Aristotle to tutor his son Alexander, and as a result Alexander became the greatest military leader of all time.  We could say that Alexander was homeschooled by this extraordinary tutor!  Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.), as he is known, came closer to conquering the entire world than anyone else before or since.  He mapped out his battles with logical precision and never lost a single one.  He went to sleep at night with Aristotle's marked-up copy of the ''Iliad'', the great work of Greek literature, under his pillow.  He treated his conquered peoples better than Aristotle would have, because Aristotle advised Alexander to treat them like animals.   

Alexander personally traveled over 22,000 miles with his troops and often knew the foreign terrain better than his enemies, even though they lived there.  He defeated the most feared empires the world had known and expanded the Greek empire from Persia to Egypt to India, before dying from swamp fever (perhaps malaria) at the young age of 33.  The world would never be the same again.

Alexander personally traveled over 22,000 miles with his troops and often knew the foreign terrain better than his enemies, even though they lived there.  He defeated the most feared empires the world had known and expanded the Greek empire from Persia to Egypt to India, before dying from swamp fever (perhaps malaria) at the young age of 33.  The world would never be the same again.