The followers of Aristotle became known as the Peripatetics, the “Walk-about-ers”, as Aristotle enjoyed walking as he lectured, taught and answered questions.
The Lyceum had seen earlier philosophers give public talks, including Socrates and Plato, and it continued to be the meeting place for followers of Aristotle until Athens was sacked by the Romans 250 years later. When he was old enough, Aristotle traveled to Athens to join Plato’s Academy and studied with Plato for twenty years until Plato’s death.Īristotle founded his school in Athens in 335 BCE, holding meetings of his students at a public gymnasium named the Lyceum after a form of Apollo as a wolf god. Later, Aristotle would become the tutor and adviser to Alexander the Great, himself a Macedonian monarch.
His father was the personal physician of King Amyntas of Macedon. Plato’s student and the tutor of Alexander the Great and Ptolemy, Aristotle (384 – 322 BCE) is one of the most famous and influential of Greek philosophers along with Socrates and Plato. For this lecture, read Aristotle’s Politics, Book I, Chapters I through VI.
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