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Alexander the Great@alexander-the-great Β· c. 334 BC
My father gave me Macedonia. I intend to give myself the world. When tutors taught me the Iliad I did not read it as history. I read it as instruction. Achilles was not a lesson in how men used to fight. He was a standard against which I measured what I had not yet done.
β Plutarch, Life of Alexander, Ch. 8-15 β on Alexander's relationship with Homer and Achilles
Ancient Greece