CLAS 3020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Arrian, Lysimachus, Hermeias
30 Sep 2013
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Parmenio (one of phillips best generals) has philotas and d. Hippostatos wife d gives birth to cleopatra-eurydike. Olympias is married to philip ii and they have cleopatra and alexander iii. Philip also marries philinna and they have arrhidaeus (philip iii) Alexander and philip get along extremely well up until alex becomes a teenager (from the sources we know) Alexander has a reputation of not being a womanizer. The most famous episode of philip and alexander involved bucephalus, told explicitly that philip didn t resent this but was proud of his son. The teachers or alexander are leonidas (after olympias, the most important instructor to alexander [kinsman to olympias]), aristotle and. Lysimachos (called himself phoenix, plays upon the family history of achilles. Lysimachos builds up alexander s concept of his ar te , what makes you great (excellence in you) Come from reading and discussing the iliad and other homeric heroes.
