Aristotle

Aristotle was born in 384 BCE in Stagira, a small town in northern Greece near the border of Macedonia. His father, Nicomachus, served as personal physician to King Amyntas of Macedon, a connection that would later prove fateful. At seventeen, Aristotle traveled to Athens and entered Plato's Academy, where he studied and taught for twenty years until Plato's death. He subsequently tutored the young Alexander the Great before returning to Athens to found his own school, the Lyceum, where he conducted research and delivered lectures while walking its covered walkways—earning his followers the name Peripatetics. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Nicomachean Ethics.