While under the care of Proxenus he got sent to Platos academy in Athens to pursue his higher education, and Proxenus knew this would be just the right …show more content…
Aristotle went back home to Macedonia to tutor a good friend of his kid, this kid was King Phillip II's son, his name was Alexander, he was 13 and will later be known as "Alexander the Great." King Phillip II promised aristotle that he would be greatly compensated for the work and effort he has put into tutoring his son Alexander. So after Alexander took his fathers throne and conquered Athens aristotle went back to the city, since he no longer needed tutoring. While in Athens, Aristotle asked Alexander the great for permission to start a new school of his own, since Platos acedemy was now directed by Xenocrates. With permission from Alexander, he started his own school and named it Lyceum, he worked there for many years as a writer, teacher, and researcher until the death of his late student Alexander the Greats passing. Students that attended Aristotles school gave him the nickname "Peripatetics" which means " people who travel about" because he was always teaching people in the move since he never had time for one on one time with students with all going on at this time. While at Lyceum, you could study anything from philosophy to math and science and politics, there was not a class that you wouldn't be able to study while attending this school. The school has a giant collection of manuscripts, because all of the members of this school wrote down their findings whenever they made a new discovery, all these manuscripts later became known as one of the first great libraries of the world. It was at the Lyceum that aristotle made more that 200 of his works, historians say only about 31 of those more than 200 survived until today. His known works are very messy and jumbled almost as if they were just notes that he wrote down while he was openly lecturing to his class or maybe notes that he wrote down while he was