the ledger of connections
The Connections of Aristotle
Greek philosopher and polymath, tutor of Alexander, father of formal logic Every person recorded alongside Aristotle in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Aristotle in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Nicomachus
- Spouses
- Pythias
- Children
- Nicomachus, Pythias
- Siblings
- Arimneste, Arimnestus
- Teachers
- Plato
- Students
- Alexander the Great, Theophrastus, Aristoxenus, Dicaearchus, Eudemus of Rhodes, Clearchus of Soli, Phaenias of Eresus, Chamaeleon, Neleus of Scepsis, Clytus of Miletus
- Influenced by
- Plato, Socrates, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Democritus, Anaximander, Epicurus, Hippocrates, Empedocles, Zeno of Elea
- Influenced
- Claudius Ptolemy, Hypatia, Alexander the Great, Nicolaus Copernicus, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Ibn al-Haytham, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), Maimonides, Averroes, Dante Alighieri, René Descartes, Thomas Hobbes, Edmund Burke, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Soren Kierkegaard, Henry David Thoreau, William of Ockham, Siger of Brabant, George Sand, Karl Popper, Ayn Rand
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 384 BCE to 322 BCE.
Ancient era
Demosthenes
384 BCE – 322 BCE
Classical Athenian statesman and orator (384–322 BC)
Ancient era
Plato
427 BCE – 347 BCE
Athenian philosopher, founder of the Academy and author of the Republic
Ancient era
Diogenes of Sinope
412 BCE – 323 BCE
4th-century BC Greek Cynic philosopher
Ancient era
Epicurus
342 BCE – 270 BCE
Ancient Greek philosopher
Ancient era
Zeno of Citium
334 BCE – 263 BCE
Greek philosopher, founder of Stoicism
Ancient era
Democritus
c. 460 BCE – c. 360 BCE
Greek philosopher (c. 460–c. 370 BC)
Ancient era
Hippocrates
460 BCE – 370 BCE
Greek physician called the father of medicine
Ancient era
Euclid
b. c. 333 BCE
Ancient Greek mathematician (fl. 300 BC)
Ancient era
Philip II of Macedon
c. 385 BCE – 336 BCE
King of Macedon from 359 to 336 BC
Ancient era
Alexander the Great
356 BCE – 323 BCE
Macedonian king who built an empire from Greece to India by age 30
Ancient era
Ptolemy I Soter
c. 365 BCE – c. 285 BCE
Macedonian general, ruler of Egypt
Ancient era
Mencius
372 BCE – 289 BCE
Chinese Confucian philosopher (372–289 BC)