Lysimachus of Acarnania

Lysimachus was a 4th century BC Greek living educator who belonged to the Great Alexander the relevant educators.

Life

A native of Acarnania Lysimachus made ​​the young Alexander with Greek culture, especially related with the epics of Homer. He called the boy a young Achilles. This may have contributed to the fact that Alexander identified with this hero of Greek mythology. Self described as Phoinix Lysimachus and Alexander's father Philip II as Peleus. The biographer Plutarch claims that Lysimachus had no particular spiritual gifts and skillfully through the titling of the young prince as Achilles in his favor had flattered.

Alexander appreciated his teacher very Lysimachus, the king of the Macedonians also accompanied later on its Persie campaign. According to the report of the Alexander historian Chares of Mytilene the Macedonian conqueror undertook during the long siege of Tyre (332 BC) a military expedition against the Arabs living in the Anti-Lebanon, and took the latter's insistence on Lysimachus with. When the old teacher from exhaustion the pace could not keep up, Alexander took care of him and risked his life, as he was cut off from his main force and a cold night unless accompanied his teacher and less faithful had to spend in the immediate vicinity of his enemies. In order to warm themselves at a fire, to the Macedon king crept up to an enemy troop and two guards stabbed and have returned with a captured torch; a counter-attack was repulsed.

The further fate of Lysimachus is not known.