Like some rock figures, Alexander the Great (356-323 BC) dazzled the world before he died young. He had a luxurious training thanks to the best teacher imaginable, the philosopher Aristotle. His relationship with his father, King Philip, proved complicated, but it soon became clear that his talent was beyond question.
From the battle of Chaeronea, his interventions on the battlefield were counted as victories. He thus became a role model for all sovereigns with military ambitions. In Rome, without going any further, many Caesars took him as a point of reference, and his posterity was accompanied by the mythical and fictional aura that accompanied him in life, with an episode as gruesome as the theft of his mortal remains.
The name of Alexander the Great was inscribed in eternity, even though his rise was that of an ephemeral star. After his untimely death, his vast domain would soon be fragmented.
