ABSTRACT
Aristotle (384-22) was born in Stagira in Chalcidice (in northeastern Greece) so he is sometimes called the Stagirite. His father was a court physician of Macedonian King Amyntas, father of Philip and grandfather of Alexander. Aristotle went to Athens when he was 17 years old and became a student at Plato’s academy. He lived in Athens as a metic (resident alien) until Plato’s death (348). Afterward, he did research in biology in Asia Minor, taught young Alexander in a school he built in Macedonia, and then came back to Athens in 335 to open a school in the Lyceum (L_keion). His school in Athens was called Peripatetic because he taught while walking in the colonnade (per8patov) of the Lyceum. He was expelled from Athens in 323 and died in Chalcis in 322.
