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Leonidas of Epirus (Greek: Λεωνίδας ο Ηπειρώτης) or Leuconides (Greek: Λευκονίδης), was a tutor of Alexander the Great. A kinsman of Alexander's mother, Olympias, he was entrusted with the main superintendence of Alexander's education in his earlier years, apparently before he became a student of Aristotle.
The marriage made Alexander's position as heir less secure, since any son of Cleopatra Eurydice would be a fully Macedonian heir, while Alexander was only half-Macedonian. [42] During the wedding banquet , a drunken Attalus publicly prayed to the gods that the union would produce a legitimate heir.
Leonidas forces Alexander into a Spartan lifestyle and the tutors try to tame Alexander's imagination into rote learning. Conditions are somewhat alleviated by an old family friend, Lysimachus of Acarnania , who encourages Alexander's dreams by referring to Alexander as the mythical hero Achilles and himself as Phoinix .
Alexander the Great Taming Bucephalus is an 1826 history painting by the British artist Benjamin Robert Haydon. [1] [2] It depicts a scene from ancient history when Alexander the Great tamed his famous warhorse Bucephalus. On the right of the picture are Alexander's father Philip II of Macedon and mother Olympias.
At breakfast, Alexander's older brothers, Anthony and Nick, find prizes in their cereal boxes, while he does not. In the carpool on the way to school, Alexander does not get a window seat. At school, Alexander's picture of an "invisible castle" (really just a blank sheet of paper) is met with disapproval from his teacher, Mrs. Dickens.
However, Burke warns that in the age of specialization, polymathic people are more necessary than ever, both for synthesis—to paint the big picture—and for analysis. He says: "It takes a polymath to 'mind the gap' and draw attention to the knowledges that may otherwise disappear into the spaces between disciplines, as they are currently ...
Margaret D. H. Keane (born Margaret Doris Hawkins, September 15, 1927 – June 26, 2022) [1] was an American artist known for her paintings of subjects with big eyes. She mainly painted women, children, or animals in oil or mixed media.
The torso and the position of Alexander's right hand are somewhat similar to the famous 2nd century AD sculpture "Ares Ludovisi", a plaster copy of which was in the collection of the Academy of Arts. [24] To Alexander's left is a full-length portrait of the physician Philip reading a letter given to him by the king. [3]