Aristotle's Travels through History | Chapters & Sources

(In Swedish)

1. Babylon: Good but not Enough

Briefly about the birth of astronomy in ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece. 

Lecture by Johan Kärnfelt at Humanisten, Gothenburg University 2022.

Ofer Gal, 2021: The Origins of Modern Science, Chapter 3: The Birth of Astronomy.

The image is probably from a popular science magazine, Flamarionne from 1888.

Aristotle 350 BC On Heavens. http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/heavens.2.ii.html

2 Macedonia: Orphan in Royal Company

Aristotle and his father Nikomachus leave Stagira in northeast Greece for the Macedonian capital Pella.

J J O'Connor, E F Robertson, 1999. https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Aristotle/

School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland.

3. Athens: Plato Was Not There

Aristotle arrives in Athens that recovers after the defeat against Sparta. Briefly on locations in ancient Athens.

Ofer Gal, 2021. The Origins of Modern Science.

Alf Henriksson: Antiken historier 1958: (Environmental descriptions and political situation in Athens.)

Svante Nordin 2017, Filosofins historia.

4. Plato on the Death of Socrates

About Plato. Travels, wars and disappointments. Reason's for Plato's school Academia. 

J J O'Connor, E F Robertson: 1999: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Plato/

Alf Henriksson, 1958: Antiken historier. (Details of the trial against Socrates and his defense speech and death.)

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Notes about sources

I have taken the liberty of using imagination to fill in less important details: such as Aristotle traveled with his father in a ship from Stagira to Pella, that he played with the son of the Macedonian King (historians find i likely that they got to know each other though). I don't know if he came in the company of a slave to Athens, but it is not a bold guess since it was natural for aristocrats to have many slaves. Years, major events, quotes and descriptions of the lives and activities of the various people are taken from the sources above (which of course also contains a lot of assumptions due to time distance and insufficient original sources).