Archaeologists unearthed a building complex containing two banquet halls, a sporting arena, a stadium, a roofed porch and a lecture hall with stone desks, according to the statement. Mosaic floors and columns decorated the complex. The banquet halls had raised pedestals where nearly a dozen couches would originally have been placed.
Among the building ruins, which date to the fourth century B.C., archaeologists discovered coins, ceramics and four styluses that ancient pupils used for writing, providing clues to who might have been educated there.
A researcher cleans part of an ancient mosaic. The school was quite opulent, as it was funded by Philip II for educating Alexander and other Macedonian nobles. (Image credit: Copyright Hellenic Ministry of Culture)
According to Plutarch, Philip II, had this school built "for the education of his son Alexander and the children of the noble Macedonians," Kottaridi told Live Science in an email. Schools in the ancient Greek world, called "gymnasia," taught students a variety of subjects and also trained them physically.
Scholars supportive
Live Science reached out to scholars not involved with the excavation, and they were supportive of the idea that Alexander the Great studied at this school.
Another aerial image showing more of the school where Aristotle taught Alexander. (Image credit: Copyright Hellenic Ministry of Culture)
Graham Wrightson, a history professor at South Dakota State University, told Live Science in an email that "Alexander studied there under Aristotle so it is exciting to excavate the very school rooms where his teacher shaped his formative years." The discovery of "four stylus writing implements allows us to dream that one belonged to Alexander," Wrightston said, even if none of them truly did. "Still, it allows us to put ourselves in the shoes of the young Alexander and understand more how he became the famous king."
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The education that Alexander and his school mates received from Aristotle would have been excellent, Baynham said. "Alexander — who by all accounts was highly intelligent — was taught by one of the finest minds of the ancient world in terms of range and insight. Aristotle would have only been in his early 40s."
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