![]() The three greatest ancient Greek philosophers were Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates. He died in Euboea of natural causes that same year, 322 BC. When Alexander died, Athenians started to dislike Macedonians again and Aristotle left the city. The king executed Aristotle's grandnephew Callisthenes as a traitor. Aristotle often said that he disliked Alexander calling himself a god. ![]() He threatened Aristotle in letters he wrote to him. Near the end of Alexander's life, he began to think people might be trying to kill him. ![]() Some people think Aristotle was probably the last person to know everything there was to know about in his own time. All of Aristotle's works are like an encyclopedia of everything the Greeks knew. The works that have survived are probably lecture notes for his students. It was probably then (335 to 323 B.C.) that Aristotle wrote most of his works. Aristotle taught courses at the school for twelve years. p58īy 335 BC Aristotle returned to Athens. One time, he advised Alexander to be 'a leader to the Greeks and a despot to the barbarians, to look after the former as after friends and relatives, and to deal with the latter as with beasts or plants'. He encouraged Alexander to conquer Persia, which was an empire to the east. During that time, he not only taught Alexander he also taught two other future kings: Ptolemy and Cassander.Īristotle believed Greek culture was better than all of the other cultures. Aristotle was put in charge of the royal academy of Macedon. Philip II of Macedon invited Aristotle to tutor his son Alexander the Great. They looked at the botany and zoology of the island. While in Asia, Aristotle traveled with Theophrastus to the island of Lesbos. He then traveled with Xenocrates to Asia Minor. Aristotle stayed at the academy until he was 27. He was a soldier for King Amyntas of Macedonia.Īt about the age of eighteen, Aristotle went to Athens to become a student of Plato at Plato's Academy. Aristotle tutored Alexander the Great when Alexander was a child.Īristotle's father was named Nicomachus. Aristotle wrote many books, and some of those books survive. He was one of the most important philosophers in the history of Western civilization. Aristotle: marble copy of bronze bust by Lysippus, Louvre Museum.Īristotle (Stagira, Macedonia, 384 BC – Chalicis, Euboea, Greece, 7 March 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher.
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