According to the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, a school recently unearthed in the ancient Macedonian city of Mieza (in modern Greece) may be the site where Aristotle educated Alexander the Great. The excavations revealed a 2,400-year-old building complex, consisting of a lecture hall, an arena, a stadium and two banquet halls. The accompanying mosaic floors and decorated columns are similar to those found in the Macedonian royal palace at Aigai (modern Vergina). Plutarch wrote that Aristotle educated Alexander the Great at a school in Mieza (Alexander 7.1–3). This historical account, along with the similarities between the school and the royal palace, has led scholars to identify the recently unearthed complex as the school where Aristotle taught Alexander. While Alexander the Great is not named in the Bible, the book of Daniel contains prophecies traditionally understood to refer to him. Daniel 8:5 reads, “As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west across the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground. And the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes” (ESV). Verse 21 identifies the goat as Greece and its prominent horn as its first king, whom many scholars identify as Alexander the Great.
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