Alexander according to Plutarch

Statue and bust of Alexander the Great in the Istanbul archaeological museum. The extraordinary bust was found by archaeologists working at Pergamum.

He was by his nature a lover of literature, of learning and of reading. Thinking, and calling the Iliad “A portable treasury of military excellence”, he took up the copy corrected by Aristotle, which people call the casket copy, and always kept it with a dagger under his pillow.

~Plutarch~