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I kinda have an idea of writing a comfy vignette of short stories about Alexander's education with Aristotle.

Does anyone know what sources would be best to read to learn more about this part of Alexander's life?

>> No.21770777

>>21770686

>[...] vignette of short stories[...] [SIC]


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>> No.21770822

>>21770686
Considering the nature of relationship between a teacher and student in ancient greece. Did Aristotle ever get fuck Alexander's boipussy?

>> No.21770856

>>21770822
Aristotle was too autistic to be interested in boipussy.

>> No.21770862

>>21770856
But would it have been alllowed? Even though Alexander is royalty?

>> No.21770885

>>21770862
No. He was a Macedonian and the conqueror’s son. The jock was banging Barsine and any slave girls he wanted.

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>>21770686
Plutarch is really the only source. Plutarch in general is the only one that covers Alexander's youth. The other sources really only make tertiary comments. Generally, he loved the Iliad and could cite Euripides by heart. The sources (which one should keep a sceptical eye on) present the image of an intellectual individual. However, this may just be a Greek literary trope regarding the 'ideal' image of a king, which Alexander was keen on consciously emulating.
You're probably going to have to glean a lot and make educated inferences based on the work of Aristotle.
There is a belief that part of 'the politics' was written for Alexander regarding how he should rule, however, it has been challenged as it coming down to the present by a writer termed 'pseudo-Aristotle'. There's evidence of Aristotle's writing, but it's unknown to what extent it may have been manipulated by later editors/scholars.

>> No.21771055

>>21770822
Not really related, but I read about a private teacher who got caught fucking his student, but it was a girl not a boy. The father had them both put to death. I don't know what would happen if it was a boy. The reason the father killed the girl too was because girls are used for alliances through marriage. Could that be why man-boy love was accepted but not man-girl love?

>> No.21771064

>>21771055
I forgot to say. Girls were only valued for their virginity. If they weren't a virgin, then they'd be considered unfit for marriage.

>> No.21772427

>>21771064
>Girls were only valued for their virginity
In your culture. There were however many different kinds of culture in and around the region. Okay?