Archaeology Sensation: grave of the famous philosopher Aristotle discovered – THE WORLD

There are few people who have shaped the thinking of later generations in a similar way: Without the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384 -322) would extend logic and state theory, poetry and ethics, science and knowledge theory at other tracks. In addition to his teacher (and counterparties) Platon he laid the foundations of Western philosophy.

You must have this fall height in mind the comments Greek archaeologist Kostas Sismanides to appreciate in an appropriate manner. The split at the edge of Aristotle Congress with in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, that he had possibly found the grave of Aristotle: “Strong evidence indicates that we have the grave found”, quotes him the Greek state television (ERT)

Photo: picture alliance / Rainer Hackenbe the ruins of ancient Stageira on the coast of the Halkidiki

Sismanides digs since 1996 in the ruins of the Greek city Stageira on the east side of Halkidiki. There, near the modern village of Olympiada, he had found the remains of a horseshoe-shaped building. This could be the place in which inhabitants buried by Stageira the ashes of her famous fellow citizen after his death, says the archaeologist.

dignity confirmed its interpretation, this would also include a gap in the biography of the famous thinker. According to tradition, Aristotle died in the city of Chalcis on the large island of Euboea off the coast of central Greece. There he had 324 withdrawn because he was afraid, like the philosopher Socrates, Plato teachers to be cited in court and possibly sentenced to death.

wanted that bring back the citizens of Stageira most famous son of their city after his death 322, not only with the fame, but also with piety to do. Stageira was destroyed in the 340s-years in the wars of Philip II. Of Macedonia. After Philipp Aristotle (should be the “the Great”) to tutor to his son Alexander had ordered, that could move the king to rebuild the city. Therefore, the philosopher was something of a founding hero of the city. As later the tombs and relics of Christian saints secured a place, it could be very useful if such a benefactor to all times remained at those whom they had helped to so generous manner.

Whether Aristotle was happy about this last passage, may be doubted. The son of a doctor wanted in time to escape the constricting Province. At 17 he went to Athens, where he entered the Academy of Plato soon. The well-recognized the exceptional talent of his pupil, but passed him in the succession issue, because both but many key questions unanswered too different. After years in lucrative positions at various royal courts Aristotle was in 336 in Athens, where he founded his own school the Lyceum.

the repatriation of the great thinker brought the people of Stageira only partially luck. In his “Geography of the ancient world” describes the Greek geographer Strabo around the time of the “hometown of Aristotle” as “the now deserted Stageira”.

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