"Defenestrate the Persians, Alexander. Race war now!"
Seriously, Aristotle?
>>403718
Source?
>>403722
He told Alexander to have no mercy when fighting the Persians and to treat them like savages.
Apparently he got butthurt when he heard Alexander wasn't doing that.
>>403722
1488 B.C.
Hadrian did nothing wrong
>>403722
An apocryphal one. Plutarch gives an account of the following supposed advice from Aristotle:
"For Alexander did not follow Aristotle’s advice to treat the Greeks as if he were their leader, and other peoples as if he were their master; to have regard for the Greeks as for friends and kindred, but to conduct himself toward other peoples as though they were plants or animals; for to do so would have been to cumber his leadership with numerous battles and banishments and festering seditions. But, as he believed that he came as a heaven-sent governor to all, and as a mediator for the whole world, those whom he could not persuade to unite with him, he conquered by force of arms, and he brought together into one body all men everywhere, uniting and mixing in one great loving-cup, as it were, men’s lives, their characters, their marriages, their very habits of life. He bade them all consider as their fatherland the whole inhabited earth, as their stronghold and protection his camp, as akin to them all good men, and as foreigners only the wicked; they should not distinguish between Grecian and foreigner by Grecian cloak and targe, or scimitar and jacket; but the distinguishing mark of the Grecian should be seen in virtue, and that of the foreigner in iniquity; clothing and food, marriage and manner of life they should regard as common to all, being blended into one by ties of blood and children."
Problem is, it's inconsistent with Aristotle's actual writings, and we actually have no basis for assuming taking the supposed character of Aristotle and Alexander's relationship to be anything but legend. Alexander knew of Aristotle, but there's no evidence that Aristotle taught Alexander (*other* young Macedonian nobles, on the other hand...).
>>403718
But we don't have any windows nearby
>>404025
>Alexander knew of Aristotle, but there's no evidence that Aristotle taught Alexander (*other* young Macedonian nobles, on the other hand...).
Really? Didn't Alexander's father enlist Aristotle? It's all a bunch of bullshit?
"Get these Persian out of my sunlight, Alex"
>"Killing the Mede like Apollo Creed" Diogenes of Simope
>>405025
>>405025
kek
>>404025
>Problem is, it's inconsistent with Aristotle's actual writings, and we actually have no basis for assuming taking the supposed character of Aristotle and Alexander's relationship to be anything but legend. Alexander knew of Aristotle, but there's no evidence that Aristotle taught Alexander (*other* young Macedonian nobles, on the other hand...).
Absolute retardation. It is established historical fact
>>405025
Top kek.
> Do we honestly know this for a fact !
Honestly we live in a world in that some retards think the earth is flat or that the moon landings were real ...cmon
>>404933
We have some surviving essays written by Aristotle for Alexander's personal use and we know Alexander spent at least one summer in Aristotle's tutelage.
>>406425
good
