After the death of Plato in 347 BC, Aristotle moved to Assos, or city in Asia Minor, where a friend of his, Hemias was the ruler. There he counseled Hermias and married his niece and adopted daughter Pythias. After Hermias was captured and executed by the Persians, Aristotle went to Pella, the Mededonian capital, where he became the tutor to the Kings young son, Alexander, later known as Alexander the Great. In 335 BC, when Alexander became …
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…history of the world that has influenced so many, or been cited over the amount of time as Aristotle has. Darwin remarks that the intellectual heroes of his time "were mere school boys compared to Old Aristotle." Works Cited Rowman & Littefield, Aristotle The Man And His Work Lanham copy 1997 Cornell University, Aristotle : A Critical Biography Ithaca press copy 1987 C.C Taylor, Richard M. Hare, Keith Thomas, Jonathan Barnes, Greek Philosophers Oxford University Press copy 1983