Editing Callisthenes (section)

==Early life==
[[File:Olympias presenting the young Alexander the Great to Aristotle by Gerard Hoet before 1733 MH.jpg|thumb|[[Olympias]] presenting the young Alexander the Great to Aristotle by Gerard Hoet, before 1733]]
Callisthenes was born in [[Olynthus]] sometime during 360 BCE. Little is known of his early childhood except that his mother Hero was the niece of Aristotle, and daughter of [[Proxenus of Atarneus]] and [[Arimneste]]; which made Callisthenes the great-nephew of Aristotle by his sister Arimneste, Callisthenes's grandmother. It is also known that Callisthenes was in the care of Aristotle by 347 BCE and studied under him as his student. Callisthenes spent much of his early life writing and traveling with Aristotle. His first literary work was an [[encomium]] to [[Hermias of Atarneus]], but by 334 BC, he had written a few works including a series on Greek history and antiquarian writings, such as a registry of competitors for the [[Pythian Games]] for which Aristotle and Callisthenes are thanked.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Brown |first=Truesdell S. |date=1949 |title=Callisthenes and Alexander |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/291475 |journal=The American Journal of Philology |volume=70 |issue=3 |pages=225–233 |doi=10.2307/291475 |jstor=291475 |issn=0002-9475}}</ref> Based on the fact that a reference by Diodorus Siculus mentions Callisthenes’ historical accounts of Greek history, it can be assumed that Callisthenes was a historian of some repute before he began working with Alexander the Great.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Diodorus Siculus, Library, Book XIV, chapter 117 |url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0083:book=14:chapter=117 |access-date=2023-06-05 |website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> Callisthenes first met Alexander the Great, when Alexander began being tutored by Aristotle around the age of thirteen. Aristotle had been tasked by [[Philip II of Macedon]] to tutor the young Alexander in Mytilene. While both studying under Aristotle, Callisthenes and Alexander would have come to know each other as fellow students and pupils of Aristotle.<ref name=":2" />