Who taught king Alexander the great to love greek ways?

Answer 1

Alexander the great was Greek so like all Greek youths grew up with stories of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and the Greek heroes, of history, myths and legends. He was raised attending the odeon and watching plays by classical Athenian tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides who were all favorites of his father Philip II and whose works formed part of the proper education of a Greek.

Alexander participated in festivals and religious events like the Dionysian festivals and would have attended the Olympic and various other Greek games of Greece. Macedonia had always been a hub of cultural activity with Classical Greek intellectual visitors often seen at royal court. Visitors such as the lyric poet Melanippides and the renowned medical doctor Hippocrates at the court of Perdiccas II, or Pindar's 'enkomion' written for Alexander I which was probably composed at his court. As a Greek, this would have been Alexanders childhood world.

In his formal education, Alexander was first tutored by the strict Leonidas, a relative of his mother, and by Lysimachus of Acarnania. In early childhood, Alexander was raised learning to read, play the lyre, ride, fight, and hunt.

When Alexander was 13, Philip overlooked such academics as Isocrates and Speusippus and chose Aristotle to tutor Alexander and his noble companions, providing the Temple of the Nymphs at Mieza as a classroom. Plutarch describes Alexander's studies with Aristotle. Subjects included ethics, politics, medicine, natural philosophy and unstated esoteric knowledge, which may have been metaphysics. He also studied Homer and carried with him on his campaigns a cherished copy of the Iliad.