Aristotle is a Greek philosopher, scientist, and educator how lived from 384
to 322 B.C.. He was considered to be one of the greatest and most influential
philosophers in Western culture. He was born in northern Greece on the
Macedonia coast in a small town called Stagira. Aristotle came from an upper
middle class were his father, Nichomachus, was a court physician to King
Amanitas II of Macedonia. This is where Aristotle became associated with the
Macedonian court, which influenced him greatly. When Aristotle was still a boy
both his parents died. He was then raised by his legal guardian Proxenous, till he
was seventeen. At that age Aristotle left to Athens , the intellectual city of Greece.
At the age eighteen he entered Plato's Academy. Aristotle was recognized
by Plato as being the brightest and most learned student out of anyone he ever
taught. There for Plato called him "Intelligence of the school" and the "Reader."
He studied at the academy for twenty years until Plato's death.
After Plato's death, Aristotle left the academy and joined some of Plato's
followers. He lived with Hermeias, who became ruler of two towns, Atarneus and
Assos in Mysia. Aristotle stayed with him for about three years. While there he
married, Pythias, the adopted daughter of Hermeias.
At the invitation of Philip the second, king of Macedonia he became the
tutor of Alexander. He studied under Aristotle for about six years, till Alexander's
dad died and Alexander took over as ruler of Macedonia. Alexander is now know
as Alexander the Great since he conquered all of Greece and overthrew the Persian
In 334 B.C. Aristotle went back to Athens and started a school called
Lyceum. At his school Aristotle was called Peripatetic, which means walking
around because Aristotle walked with his
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