This movie has Alexander the Great as a young man speaking to his teacher and mentor, the highly philosopher Aristotle. This film also has Alexander reading the Greek Iliad of Homer.

Now, in real life Aristotle conducted others to do what we would deem today as scientific experiments. The school of Aristotle came up with a two-thirds scientifically accurate account of the things in nature they observed. Interesting how that very Aristotle later ended up working for a royal court like that of Philip the Second of Macedonia.

Imagine if the true religion of Israel never got out to the world and the false Greek pagan religion won Europe till, about the modern age. And the Iliad and Odyssey and Aristotle's written works survived as the main literature of Europe and later developed Americas as well. What would modern scientists and archaeologists have said? Well, they would have said that the Greek world itself was far older than just 600 years before the first Olympics. That Aristotle's works were only two thirds scientifically accurate. That silly gods like Zeus and Apollo could not exist. (But God himself could. The universe needs a creator and sometimes even in ancient pagan literature the creator was just called God anyway!).

PS The reason I write this is that amazingly Aristotle's very mistaken-but-still-impressive work made it to a very important royal court and was accepted there. This paralleled a little the way totally true Holy Bible being accepted by the Court of Israel. Alexander later took Israel too and help spread the true literature. See my postings.

Double PS Was Aristotle who led the scientific experiments in southern Greece honestly the same individual who later showed up at the Macedonian court? Or was he was a just a student also named Aristotle? (Just food for extra thought. Pay attention to main points of this posting. And see my other postings!)