Being the son of the court physician to the King of Macedonia, Aristotle was introduced to the sciences at an early stage. He attended the Athenian Academy of Plato for 20 years, only leaving after Plato's death in 348 BC. During the following 12 years he travelled extensively and established his own schools at Mytilene and Assus. Aristotle spent three years in Pella, Macedonia and tutored the young Alexander the Great, before returning to Athens in 335 BC. He established the Lyceum along similar lines to the Academy and spent 12 years building it into a center of expertise in the fields of history and biology. After the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC, Aristotle retired to Chalcis where he died in 322 BC.
Forty-seven of Aristotle's works have survived and are all of an academic nature. |
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