Life / Career
Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.
- Aristotle went to Athens to study at Plato's Academy at the age of 17. He stayed for 20 years, first as a student and then as a teacher.
- Aristotle moved to Assos, a city in Asia Minor, after the death of Plato in 347 BC. Here he counseled his friend, Hermias of Atarneus, and married Hermias' niece and adopted daughter, Pythias.
- After Hermias' execution at the hands of the Persians in 345 BC, Aristotle travelled to Pella, the Macedonian capital.
- In 342 BC, he began tutoring King Philip II's young son Alexander, who later became known as Alexander the Great.
- When Alexander became king in 335 BC, Aristotle returned to Athens where he founded his own school, the Lyceum.
- The Lyceum was involved in a greater range of subjects than the Academy, even during Plato's time.
- The Lyceum was often refered to as the Peripatetic ('walking' or 'strolling') school because many teacher-student discussions took place while walking on its grounds.
- Aristotle spent the last year of his life at a family estate in Chalcis on the Aegean island of what is now Evvoia. He died in 322 BC.
