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Alexander the Great received an elite education thanks to learned teachers like Aristotle, practiced extreme sports and had an army of intellectuals.
In the spring of 334 BC, the very young Alexander III of Macedon, known as "the Great", began one of the most impressive military enterprises in history: the conquest of the Persian Empire, which stretched from Asia Minor to India, ie. to the limits of the then known world. In 13 years, Alexander conquered 5 million km2 and his dream came true. Few kingdoms expanded so quickly.
The secret of Alexander's success was an unprecedented success due to many factors: personal charisma, military and diplomatic intelligence and having the best army of the time (about 40 thousand units). The fact that he grew up among Macedonia's "best youth" certainly worked in his favor, but his adolescence must not have been a walk in the park. He attended Aristotle's school, devoted himself to extreme sports, and was trained for war from an early age by a doting father like Philip II (382-336 BC).
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Alexander the Great had the best available for his education, in every respect. He enjoyed the wisdom of Aristotle as a leader until the age of 16, for military training he grew up under the shadow of the exploits of his father Philip, who had conquered Greece, and of his general Parmenion, strengthening his fighting skills together with the young Macedonian nobility, "comrades", who would be by his side in decisive battles.
The born knight. Together with his "friends" he learned the art of horsemanship from the age of ten, learning to jump on the saddle, lead horses in parades and carousels, talk to them and take care of them.
Always competitive. In addition to training with weapons in the schools and gymnasiums of Pella where he was born, a noble teenager like him dedicated a lot of time to sports: first of all, running. He trained in the hoplitodròmos, the "soldier's race," or running 400 meters with shield, helmet, and gravel to simulate the distance covered by a hoplite in charging an opposing army and returning, beyond the range of the enemy's arrows.
He also practiced gymnastics, in the Pyrrhic dance that simulated the movements of a hoplite in battle with spear and shield, but also in hunting and fighting. He challenged other nobles to pankration, a type of boxing where everything was worth it (but which Alexander hated, at least according to Plutarch).
The army of "reason". Alexander, despite his desire for conquest, did not forget how he had grown up. One of the most distinctive aspects of the expedition undertaken by Alexander in 334 BC, in fact, was the vast deployment of intellectual as well as military resources. Philosophers and men of letters fought alongside scientists, whose aim was also to collect and study plant, animal or mineral specimens unknown in the Hellenic world. Another characteristic of his army was the presence of a complete "military genius", consisting of engineers, blacksmiths and carpenters assigned to the construction of assault vehicles. Thus, thanks to the perfect functioning of its "military machinery", the Kingdom of Macedonia reached its peak in just 13 years.
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