Aristotle tutors the teenage Alexander
343 BCE · Event
Philip II hires the greatest mind in Greece to teach his heir at Mieza — three years of Homer, biology and politics that give the future conqueror his annotated Iliad, kept later under his pillow with a dagger. History's most consequential tutorial arrangement.
On these timelines: Master, Alexander the Great's Conquests, Ancient Greece, Arts and Thoughts
Around 343 BCE
- Reign of Alexander the Great (336 BCE)
- Peloponnesian War (431 BCE)
- Wars of the Diadochi (322 BCE)
- Aristotle (384 BCE)
- Plato (428 BCE)
- Maurya Empire (322 BCE)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Alexander the Great (356 BCE)
- Punic Wars (264 BCE)
- Euclid's Elements (300 BCE)