The Life of Aristotle

A short educational film on the life of Aristotle, who was a great philosopher and scientist, to celebrate his birth exactly 2,400 years ago.

By the time he died, in his late fifties, he had changed the way people thought about the natural world and how humans behave forever.
He made huge advances in logic, mathematics, science (especially biology and zoology), ethics, political theory, the way we understand art and literature and the way we think about the possibility of a god or gods.

He lived in at least eight different places in Greece and what is now Turkey. He lived most of his life in the shadow of the rising Kingdom of Macedon and was the teacher of Alexander the Great when he was a teenager.

I decided to visit each one of them to ask what each environment might have added to his experience. Each place must have contributed to the development of his thought.

Production Team
Prof Edith Hall -- Presenter
Sarah Poynder -- Camera woman & film editor
Dr Leonidas Papadopoulos -- Fixer & Consultant
Christina Papageorgiou -- Deputy Camerawoman
Rear Admiral Symeon Constanidis -- Specialist
Murat Baskurt -- Fixer for Turker

Special thanks to:
The Papadopoulos Family
Elena Fanariotou
HMA John Kittmer and David Bates, as well as Tess the Embassy dog
Prof Peggy & Lucy Reynolds

Places of visit:
Stageira, Greece
Pella, Greece
Plato's Academy, Athens, Greece
Assos, Turkey
Lesvos, Greece
Mieza, Greece
The Lyceum, Athens, Greece
Chalkida, Greece