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Excerpt from Quintus Curtius Rufus, Vol. 8: Books VIII. (Chaps; IX.-XIV.) Alexander, known to History as 'alexander the Great, ' succeeded to the throne of Macedonia in the month of August, 336 His father was Philip of Macedon; his mother was Olympias, daughter of the neighbouring Prince of Epirus; his tutor was Aristotle. Of the personal influences which affected his early years these three were the most potent. No one of course can undertake at this distance of time to give any detailed account of what it was that Alexander learnt from Aristotle; but the fact that the greatest man of action in the ancient world was the pupil of its greatest thinker will always remain one of the most suggestive coincidences in History. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.