Aristotle was born in 384 BC at Stagira, in Thrace (northern Greece), and was also know as ‘the Stagirite.’ He was the son of a wealthy physician attached to the court of the father of Philip of Macedon. When he was seventeen he moved to Athens, where for more than twenty years he studied at Plato's Academy. After Plato's death he went to Asia Minor to educate Alexander the Great. He returned to Athens in 337 BC and founded his famous ‘peripatetic (walking) school’, the Lyceum, where he remained for twelve years. When Philip of Macedon died in 336, Alexander followed up his father's pan-Hellenic dream with imperial conquests and Aristotle furnished much of the geographic information needed. In return, Aristotle's library was vastly enriched by royal grants. Eventually, he became involved in a political conflict and was accused, with Socrates, of godlessness. He fled to Chalcis, and soon after he died there in solitude (Owen et al., 1970).
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Tirion, H.B., Fairbridge, R.W. (1999). Aristotle (aristoteles, 384–322 BC). In: Environmental Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Science. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4494-1_22
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