An official synopsis for the series reads:
“Based on Annabel Lyon’s novel The Golden Mean, the drama begins as the Athenian empire is crumbling and the world’s greatest mind, Aristotle, arrives in Macedonia to tutor a volatile young prince, Alexander. Amid palace intrigue, forbidden love, brutal war and ruthless ambitions, their unlikely friendship shapes an empire and alters the course of history.”
“I fell in love with Annabel Lyon’s book The Golden Mean years ago and have been dreaming of telling this story ever since,” Tierney says in a press release. “Brendan and I couldn’t be more excited to be partnering with Aggregate and Netflix to bring this insanely compelling world to life.”
To be clear, there’s nothing—so far, at least—to suggest that the “forbidden love” here will be anything like the forbidden love in Heated Rivalry, though some historians have suggested, likely to the chagrin of RETVRN Twitter, that Alexander had sex with a man or two. Aristotle really did tutor Alexander The Great, though, who did go on to establish the largest empire the world had ever seen at that point. Pretty good teacher, we’d say!
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