WORLD HISTORY

HISTORY

ANCIENT GREECE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which Greek thinker was Alexander the Great’s teacher?
A
Socrates
B
Plato
C
Archimedes
D
Aristotle
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The great philosopher Aristoteles taught Alexander the Great in Naoussa. In the year 342 bC the King Philip II of Macedonia invited in the area of Naoussa the great philosopher Aristoteles to teach his 13 years old son Alexander, which will be later Alexander the Great.

Detailed explanation-2: -Plato mentored Aristotle in philosophy and, in the Macedonian village of Mieza, Aristotle mentored Alexander the Great. The teachings spanning back to Socrates had trickled through great minds through mentorship down to Alexander.

Detailed explanation-3: -He taught his students subjects such as logic, physics, public speaking, politics, and philosophy.

Detailed explanation-4: -Aristotle is a towering figure in ancient Greek philosophy, who made important contributions to logic, criticism, rhetoric, physics, biology, psychology, mathematics, metaphysics, ethics, and politics. He was a student of Plato for twenty years but is famous for rejecting Plato’s theory of forms.

Detailed explanation-5: -Aristotle’s most famous student was Philip II’s son Alexander, later to be known as Alexander the Great, a military genius who eventually conquered the entire Greek world as well as North Africa and the Middle East.

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