Whenever great leaders are studied their personalities and childhood are also studied. That’s what we are going to do about Alexander the great today. His childhood is always presented as a big conflict with his parents. But what we see in the movies and read in the Novels is an exaggerated version of Philip II and Olympus. The sources that these movies take notes from our Athenian. Other sources and history did not survive.
So it was the enemies of Alexander’s father and their subjective generals who shaped what we know about the complete Macedonian court. These tensions are running through the court of the great Philip. This is the factor that puts a huge impact on his family relations because he was practising polygamy. When you take a look at marriages in the court of Macedonia, then you will come to know that the marriages were done solely for political purposes.
To establish strong political relations and diplomatic powerful associations between two families. There were seven wives within Phillips range. Only two of the wives gave him two sons Philip the third arrhidaeus and Alexander the great. There are some sources who tell us about the third child but many say that because he is not known very well it might be that he was dead in his childhood.
The conflict was bound to reach the court because of the presence of the seven wives. This multitude of Royal succession was showing us the lack of a really clear cut systematic examination in the life of Alexander. Let him write that until the seventh century BC, the death of Alexander resulted in the succession of Macedonian kings, all of them came from Alexander.
The maternal family was really important in the Macedonian court. If the mother was of Macedonian nobility, then her support for the air and presence in the court was stronger. However, if the sons were poor from the foreign woman, then they were seen as less legitimate.
That’s why their political factor and potential in the Macedonian court was weak. To Master of courage for the potential air from the foreign woman was not taken seriously in the court of Macedonia. To ensure political stability the final decision always lies with the monarch.
Which means his wife’s were really important in placing the role of an air within their husband’s mind but in the actual course of thoughts the king was the only one who could make decisions. Alexander was completing his training to be fit as the prince of Macedonia.
His teachings consisted of traditional grammar as well as arithmetic and geometric physical activities. He really was. Amazing in hunting and training for the battle. A total was his teacher from the age of three years.