Aristotel

Aristotel

Aristotle, one of Plato’s greatest students, was born at the town of Stagirus on the Chalcidic peninsula of northern Greece in the year 384 BC. His father, Nikomachus, was a court physician and a medical doctor. Aristotle was educated as a member of a royal family. At the age of eighteen he moved to Athens to continue his education in Plato’s Academy. First he was there as a student, after he became a researcher and finally a teacher. He stayed there until Plato’s death in 347 BC. He was a great pupil, Aristotle opposed some of Plato's teachings, and when Plato died, Aristotle was not appointed head of the Academy as he wished and after that he moved from Athens. After leaving Athens, Aristotle spent some time on traveling and studying biology in Asia Minor (Turkey). According to The Literature Network, Aristotle and Xenocrates joined a small circle of followers of Plato called Platonists who had already settled there under Hermias, the ruler of Atarneus. Aristotle married the niece of Hermias, a woman named Pythias, who was killed by the Persians after sometime. Pythias born him a daughter. Aristotle moved with his family to Mytilene. In 343 BC Aristotle was invited to his native Stagirus by King Philip II of Macedon to become the tutor of his thirteen years old son Alexander the Great (The Literature Network, 2007). Aristotle was teaching Alexander till he became a King of Macedonia after he moved to Athens. According to Wikipedia, by 335 BC, he invented his own school there, known as the Lyceum. Aristotle conducted courses at the school for the next twelve years.   He put hard lectures in the morning and easy one in the afternoon, it was simple for students to make more success in their studies. According to EGS, in that period his wife, Pythias, died. Aristotle had married for second time with Herpyllis of Stagirus, who born him a son and named him after Aristotle’s father Nikomachus. Aristotle himself headed the school until the death of Alexander in 323 BC,...