... life working as a teacher, researcher and writer at the Lyceum in Athens. Because Aristotle was known to walk around the school grounds while teaching, his students, forced to follow him, were nicknamed the "Peripatetics," meaning "people who travel about." Lyceum members researched subjects ranging from science and math to philosophy and politics, and nearly everything in between. Art was also a popular ... area of interest. Members of the Lyceum wrote up their findings in manuscripts. In so doing, they built the school's massive collection of written materials, which by ancient accoun...

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... to Athens and he established his own school. He spent most of the rest of his life there in research, teaching, and writing. The surviving works of Aristotle probably represent only a small piece of the whole thing, they include his investigations of logic, philosophy, and ethics to physics, biology, psychology, politics, and rhetoric. Aristotle goal was to develop a universal method of reasoning so it would be ... possible to learn everything there is to know about reality. Epicureans & Epicurus Epicurus was the founder of the Epicureans. He was born in Athens in about 342 B.C.. The Ep...

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... Aristotle was the main goal of the theatre, to create happiness to the audience while educating it - "Learning is a very great pleasure". The theatre also showed the hierarchical status of the people, as did the Bema. The people of the highest status would be the closest to the speaker and the people of lower status would be at the back of the Theatre/Bema. This was socially constructing the audiences and the Athenian ... arenas and practices of city life". The city of Athens was designed for speeches to be heard, and there would be continuous speeches about politics, justice and aid, al...

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... to Athens and he established his own school. He spent most of the rest of his life there in research, teaching, and writing. The surviving works of Aristotle probably represent only a small piece of the whole thing, they include his investigations of logic, philosophy, and ethics to physics, biology, psychology, politics, and rhetoric. Aristotle goal was to develop a universal method of reasoning so it would be ... possible to learn everything there is to know about reality. Epicureans & Epicurus Epicurus was the founder of the Epicureans. He was born in Athens in about 342 B.C.. The Ep...

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... Plato, meaning "broad shouldered," due to his physical build. Plato was born in Athens' Golden Age to an aristocratic political family. The political corruption he observed is what convinced him to not go into politics. Instead, he became interested in philosophy after meeting Socrates. Plato was one of Socrates' students until Socrates was put to death for his beliefs. Plato then traveled ... Plato along with a group of other philosophers until he was put to death by the government of Athens. He was convicted with atheism and treason and sentenced to drink poison. Alexander the Great w...

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... who loves wisdom. There are many philosophers from Greece. Some of the greatest known philosophers are Aristotle and Plato. Aristotle, who was Plato's student, always argued that a citizen did not belong just to himself or herself, but to the state. He also did not accept Plato's theories. Aristotle wrote his works on ethics, logic, politics, poetry, astronomy, geology, biology, and physics. Plato a ... student of Socrates is considered one of the many greatest philosophers of Western civilization. He wrote down everything. Plato wrote about many things. ... One of his well-known writin...

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