Aristotle Timeline

Plato is born at Athens, Greece.

Trial and death of the philosopher Socrates, who taught in the court of the Agora.

Life of Aristotle.

Birth of the philosopher Aristotle, tutor to Alexander the Great, in Stagira (Greece).

Aristotle begins studies in Athens at Plato's Academy.

Aristotle leaves Athens after Plato's death to pursue his own line of inquiry.

King Philip II of Macedon summons Aristotle to tutor his young son Alexander (later 'The Great').

Aristotle returns to Athens to set up his school, the Lyceum.

Aristotle leaves Athens following the death of Alexander the Great.

Aristotle dies in Euboea of natural causes.