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Alexander (2004) – Based on the life of Alexander the Great, who is mentored by Aristotle (Christopher Plummer). The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Features Roman emperor and stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness) during the first segment of the film.
The Peripatetic school (Ancient Greek: Περίπατος lit. ' walkway ') was a philosophical school founded in 335 BC by Aristotle in the Lyceum in ancient Athens.It was an informal institution whose members conducted philosophical and scientific inquiries.
Before returning to Athens, Aristotle had been the tutor of Alexander of Macedonia, who became the great conqueror Alexander the Great. [ 11 ] Throughout his conquests of various regions, Alexander collected plant and animal specimens for Aristotle's research, allowing Aristotle to develop the first zoo and botanical garden in recorded history.
Aristotle considered ethics to be a practical rather than theoretical study, i.e., one aimed at becoming good and doing good rather than knowing for its own sake. He wrote several treatises on ethics, most notably including the Nicomachean Ethics. [139] Aristotle taught that virtue has to do with the proper function (ergon) of a thing. An eye ...
When Aristotle moved to Mytilene on Lesbos in 345/4, it is very likely that he did so at the urging of Theophrastus. [8] It seems that it was on Lesbos that Aristotle and Theophrastus began their research into natural science , with Aristotle studying animals and Theophrastus studying plants. [ 9 ]
1957: Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis meet at a party thrown by Elsa Maxwell. Maxwell, Callas, and Onassis in Venice, Italy, July 1957. Keystone-France - Getty Images
Aristotle held ethnocentric views against Persia, which estranged him and Alexander as the latter adopted a few of the Persian royal customs and clothing. This tension led to ancient rumors that painted Aristotle as a suspect for Alexander’s death, but this rumor spread based on a single claim made six years after Alexander’s passing. [11]
Ella Mary Edghill (born 13 November 1881 at Aldershot; [1] [2] died 24 January 1964 at St Mary's Hospital, Bristol) was a British translator known primarily for her translation of Categories which appeared in Volume 1 (1928) of The Works of Aristotle series, edited by W. D. Ross and J. A. Smith and for her translation of On Interpretation by Aristotle. [3]