Alexander the Great was born on the sixth day of the accent Greek month of Hekatombaion.(July 20th, 356 B.C. Phillip II,Alexander's dad, was married 8 times, the fourth wife was Alexander's mom. On the day Alexander was born The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, One of The Seven Wonders of the World, burnt down. In Alexander early years, was raised by a nurse.Alexander was raised learning how to read, play the lyre, fight, and hunt.Alexander only went through three years of tutoring.When Alexander was about ten, a trader brought Phillip a horse.The horse refused to be mounted by Phillip and he ordered it away. Alexander ,however, saw the fear of the horse and later tamed the horse. Phillip was amazed that Alexander had that much talent. Phillip told him that he needed a bigger city to oversee to put good uses of his talents. Phillip brought the horse for 13 talens (A talens is worth $26,030 USD in 2012).The Horse died at age thirty therefor Alexander named a city after the horse,Bucephala,Modern day Mandi Bahauddin. At age sixteen Alexander drove revolting people of Macedonia and colonized them in a town that he called Alexandropolis.