Professor Edith Hall

That's the first reference in world literature to human industrial farming or anything actually killing off a species.

That's the first reference in world literature to human industrial farming or anything actually killing off a species.

So he's now actually quite big in green circles.

So he's now actually quite big in green circles.

Well, he gets the gig and decides to go. That's how it's always put in his biographies. We don't know any more about it. I would say when you get a letter from Philip, the greatest murderer the Greek world has ever known of Macedon, you don't sit around saying, I don't think I feel like that because you might be dead the next day.

Well, he gets the gig and decides to go. That's how it's always put in his biographies. We don't know any more about it. I would say when you get a letter from Philip, the greatest murderer the Greek world has ever known of Macedon, you don't sit around saying, I don't think I feel like that because you might be dead the next day.

Also, it did mean money, money, money, money, money. And I think Aristotle already always had his eye on the long game, which was to found a university to completely outclass the academy.

Also, it did mean money, money, money, money, money. And I think Aristotle already always had his eye on the long game, which was to found a university to completely outclass the academy.

This is a sort of curriculum, how to behave.

This is a sort of curriculum, how to behave.

How to govern your country and how to speak in public. Yes, this would be the basis of it. But we simply don't know. And everything that Aristotle wrote after... Alexander went east, Philip died, and Alexander went east, and Aristotle went straight back to Athens and founded the Lyceum. Everything he wrote after, he never really talks about Macedon.

How to govern your country and how to speak in public. Yes, this would be the basis of it. But we simply don't know. And everything that Aristotle wrote after... Alexander went east, Philip died, and Alexander went east, and Aristotle went straight back to Athens and founded the Lyceum. Everything he wrote after, he never really talks about Macedon.

He does talk about things like really evil, very rich people. LAUGHTER Or what happens in tyrants' households? You know, that kind of thing.

He does talk about things like really evil, very rich people. LAUGHTER Or what happens in tyrants' households? You know, that kind of thing.

I completely get it. He didn't want to go back to all those old rivalries. But that school is called the Lyceum. And because Theophrastus was natural science and he did it with Theophrastus. So he brings Theophrastus with him. Utterly loyal to Theophrastus, yes. They do it together.

I completely get it. He didn't want to go back to all those old rivalries. But that school is called the Lyceum. And because Theophrastus was natural science and he did it with Theophrastus. So he brings Theophrastus with him. Utterly loyal to Theophrastus, yes. They do it together.

Well, not as a returning hero, I don't think, but as a perfectly welcome resident alien. He never got citizenship. Never, really? But I think he got loads of money. I have to say this. I think he was very sensible that he will have been paid extremely well being with Philip of Macedon's court. So he took that money and ran and stayed alive and ran. And then puts the money into the school.

Well, not as a returning hero, I don't think, but as a perfectly welcome resident alien. He never got citizenship. Never, really? But I think he got loads of money. I have to say this. I think he was very sensible that he will have been paid extremely well being with Philip of Macedon's court. So he took that money and ran and stayed alive and ran. And then puts the money into the school.

One of the things that he did was lecture to the public in the afternoons. They had public lectures. I mean, he saw it as a public-facing institution. And he wrote lots of books, which we very sadly haven't got, which put his complicated ideas in very simple form to circulate amongst the general public. He was highly committed to that. But he only stayed alive for about 13 years.

One of the things that he did was lecture to the public in the afternoons. They had public lectures. I mean, he saw it as a public-facing institution. And he wrote lots of books, which we very sadly haven't got, which put his complicated ideas in very simple form to circulate amongst the general public. He was highly committed to that. But he only stayed alive for about 13 years.