Archaeologists May Have Found the School Where Aristotle Taught Alexander the Great
The complex includes banquet halls, a stadium and stone desks, and archaeologists found coins, ceramics and four styluses used by pupils.
- Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient Mieza school where Aristotle taught Alexander the Great more than 2,300 years ago in northern Greece. The building complex contains two banquet halls, a lecture hall with stone desks, and mosaic-decorated columns.
- King Philip II funded this opulent complex 'for the education of his son Alexander' and other noble Macedonians, according to Plutarch. Ancient Greek schools called 'gymnasia' provided both academic instruction and physical training to elite students.
- Excavations revealed four stylus writing implements, coins, and ceramics dating to the 4th century B.C., suggesting daily classroom use. Graham Wrightson of South Dakota State University said these discoveries allow us to 'put ourselves in the shoes of the young Alexander.'
- Jeanne Reames, director of the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, told Live Science the evidence confirms this as the school Philip provided for Aristotle. Reames hopes the discovery will 'shed more light on elite education in Macedonia in the second half of the 4th century.'
- The school sits about 27 miles from Pella, Macedonia's ancient capital, a distance scholar Baynham noted was 'far enough away to potentially give Alexander a chance for escape if his father was assassinated.' This strategic location reveals Philip's protective planning.
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The luxurious center built by Philip II was close to the ancient city of Mieza
The Ministry of Culture of Greece agreed to found a school in which, 2300 years ago, Aristotle trained Alexander the Great. It is located in the ancient Macedonian city of Miesa, which belongs to the territory of modern northern Greece, reports Live Science. Archaeologists decorated the completed complex, which included two banquet halls, a sports arena, a stadium, a closed gallery and a lecture hall with stone tables. The complex was decorated …
Archaeologists find 2,400-year-old school linked to Aristotle, Alexander the Great
Archaeologists in Greece say they have uncovered the ancient school where Aristotle is believed to have taught a teenage Alexander the Great nearly 2,400 years ago.The sprawling complex was found at ancient Mieza in northern Greece and...
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