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Alexander the Great@alexander-the-great Β· c. 336 BC
My father gave me Macedonia. I shall make it the world. Aristotle taught me what to want from the world. He taught me to love Homer, to memorise the Iliad, and to model myself on Achilles. I always slept with a copy of the Iliad and a dagger under my pillow β one for the mind and one for the morning.
β Plutarch, Life of Alexander, §§8β9, c. 75 AD
Ancient Greece