Proxenus of Atarneus ( el, Πρόξενος ὁ Ἀταρνεύς) is most famous for being
Aristotle
Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of phil ...
's guardian after the death of his parents. Proxenus educated Aristotle for a couple of years before sending him to Athens to
Plato's Academy. He lived in
Atarneus, a city in Asia Minor.
Proxenus had married Aristotle's older sister
Arimneste
Arimneste ( grc, Ἀριμνήστη) was the daughter of Nicomachus and Phaestis, and Aristotle
Aristotle (; grc-gre, Ἀριστοτέλης ''Aristotélēs'', ; 384–322 BC) was a Greek philosopher and polymath during the Clas ...
, whereby they had a daughter Hero and a son Nicanor. Hero's own son,
Callisthenes
Callisthenes of Olynthus (; grc-gre, Καλλισθένης; 360327 BCE) was a well-connected Greek historian in Macedon, who accompanied Alexander the Great during his Asiatic expedition. The philosopher Aristotle was Callisthenes's great ...
, would later become a student and collaborator with his great-uncle Aristotle. Nicanor eventually married Aristotle's daughter,
Pythias.
References
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Diogenes Laërtius
Diogenes Laërtius ( ; grc-gre, Διογένης Λαέρτιος, ; ) was a biographer of the Ancient Greece, Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' is a ...
, ''Life of Aristotle''. ''Translated b
C.D. Yonge'.
* Eduard Zeller, ''Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics'' (1897).
4th-century BC Athenians
Aristotle