Aristotle

Family: Greece · Role: philosopher · First appears: Comparison of Alcibiades with Coriolanus

Aristotle, philosopher of Greece, was associated with Nicias as a parent and with Timaeus through “This sort of contention and rivalry with others in matter of style.” When Philip sent for him to instruct his son Alexander, he rewarded Aristotle for the care he took in educating him. For a time, Alexander cherished Aristotle “no less, as he was wont to say himself, than if he had been his father.”

Callisthenes was Aristotle’s near friend and, as the son of Aristotle’s niece Hero, had been educated in Aristotle’s house. Upon Aristotle’s death, Antipater referred to him in a letter connected with a comparison of Alcibiades and Coriolanus.

Relationship record

Comparison of Alcibiades with Coriolanus

• with Antipater (Antipater wrote a letter upon Aristotle's death.) “Antipater, in a letter written upon the death of Aristotle the philosopher, observes, ”

Nicias

• child: Nicias “Nicias the son of Niceratus”
• rivals with Timaeus “This sort of contention and rivalry with others in matter of style”

Alexander

• patron: Philip “he sent for Aristotle, the most learned and most cerebrated philosopher of his time, and rewarded him with a munificence proportionable to and becoming the care he took to instruct his son”
• pupil: Alexander “the care he took to instruct his son”
• friends with Callisthenes “Callisthenes, the philosopher, who was the near friend of Aristotle”
• younger kin: Hero “Callisthenes, for his relationship's sake, being his niece Hero's son”
• friends with Alexander “For awhile he loved and cherished Aristotle no less, as he was wont to say himself, than if he had been his father”
• with Callisthenes (interaction) “in whose house Callisthenes, for his relationship's sake, being his niece Hero's son, had been educated”
• younger kin: Callisthenes “Callisthenes, for his relationship's sake, being his niece Hero's son”

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Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.