Parallel Lives: Complete
Aristotle is remembered also for his most famous student. In 343 BCE, Aristotle was summoned by Philip of Macedon to tutor his young son Alexander, a task that Aristotle pursued for several years. Alexander became king of Macedonia and, in 334 BCE, embarked on his wars against Persia to the east, a retribution for the Achaemenid invasion of Greece
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Aristotle was born at Stagira, in the dominion of the kings of Macedonia, in 384 BC. For twenty years he studied at Athens in the Academy of Plato, on whose death in 347 he left, and, some time later, became tutor of the young Alexander the Great. When Alexander succeeded to the throne of Macedonia in 336, Aristotle returned to Athens and establish
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