Professor Edith Hall
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Hi, I'm absolutely thrilled to be here, though I would dispute that Aristotle's actually dead to me because I dream about him almost every night.
Hi, I'm absolutely thrilled to be here, though I would dispute that Aristotle's actually dead to me because I dream about him almost every night.
Aristotle actually had a really boringly normal personal life. So he's a GP's son. He's the son of the GP in a little town called Stagira, which means the dripping place, because it's high up on a cliff where the waters drip down into the sea. And dad's called... Nicomachus. Nicomachus. Yeah.
Aristotle actually had a really boringly normal personal life. So he's a GP's son. He's the son of the GP in a little town called Stagira, which means the dripping place, because it's high up on a cliff where the waters drip down into the sea. And dad's called... Nicomachus. Nicomachus. Yeah.
He's extremely real, even though just lately some of his works have been banned in China and some of the Chinese internet started saying he wasn't real. Oh. Take it from me, not the Chinese internet. Yeah. So his mother was called Festus and he seems to have been very fond of her. But very sadly, his parents died when he was about 13. Both of them, we don't quite know why.
He's extremely real, even though just lately some of his works have been banned in China and some of the Chinese internet started saying he wasn't real. Oh. Take it from me, not the Chinese internet. Yeah. So his mother was called Festus and he seems to have been very fond of her. But very sadly, his parents died when he was about 13. Both of them, we don't quite know why.
He's on a cusp between what we call classical Athenian democratic Athens. So that's the Parthenon, it's Pericles, it's the Peloponnesian War and the Persian Wars. And then because he teaches Alexander the new, what we call the Hellenistic world, which is after the Macedonian takeover of the Persian Empire.
He's on a cusp between what we call classical Athenian democratic Athens. So that's the Parthenon, it's Pericles, it's the Peloponnesian War and the Persian Wars. And then because he teaches Alexander the new, what we call the Hellenistic world, which is after the Macedonian takeover of the Persian Empire.
You went to the gymnasium. You did all the things that you do in track and field at the Olympics. He's got huge respect for athletics and health and training in all of his works. I suspect that it was just he was very good at athletics, but even better. Yeah.
You went to the gymnasium. You did all the things that you do in track and field at the Olympics. He's got huge respect for athletics and health and training in all of his works. I suspect that it was just he was very good at athletics, but even better. Yeah.
Otherwise, he would undoubtedly have become the general practitioner in Staggerer because these things were hereditary. Right. And in fact, his father came from generations and generations of doctors to the extent that he's supposed to be descended from Macaon, who is a mythical doctor in the Iliad, who was the son of Asclepius, the actual god of medicine.
Otherwise, he would undoubtedly have become the general practitioner in Staggerer because these things were hereditary. Right. And in fact, his father came from generations and generations of doctors to the extent that he's supposed to be descended from Macaon, who is a mythical doctor in the Iliad, who was the son of Asclepius, the actual god of medicine.
Either his sister or his brother-in-law just got so fed up with this boy going on and on about, you know, saying, do I know I'm really here? Do we exist at supper? So they say, OK, we got money. What's the best university in the world? Oh, we know it's Plato's Academy in Athens.
Either his sister or his brother-in-law just got so fed up with this boy going on and on about, you know, saying, do I know I'm really here? Do we exist at supper? So they say, OK, we got money. What's the best university in the world? Oh, we know it's Plato's Academy in Athens.
Oh, he's not impressed. Not as big a name as the other three. Aristotle was his star pupil. He stayed on and became a teacher, you know, because he stayed there for 20 whole years before Plato died. I think he was perfectly happy there, but he gradually became more and more important.
Oh, he's not impressed. Not as big a name as the other three. Aristotle was his star pupil. He stayed on and became a teacher, you know, because he stayed there for 20 whole years before Plato died. I think he was perfectly happy there, but he gradually became more and more important.