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Aristotle was born in 384 B.C., in Stagira, a small town in northern Greece. His father, Nichomachus, was the personal physician of Amyntas II, the king of Macedonia. His parents died when he was a boy, and he was then raised by a guardian named Proxenus. When Aristotle was about 18 years old, he entered Plato's Academy in Athens, where he remained until Plato's death in 347 B.C. He then left to join a small group of Plato's disciples living with Hermeias, a former student at the Academy who had become ruler of the coastal towns of Atarneus and Assos in Asia Minor. Aristotle remained with Hermeias for about three years and married the ruler's adopted daughter, Pithias. In 343 or 342 B.C., Philip II, king of Macedon, invited Aristotle to supervise the education of his young son Alexander. Alexander studied under Aristotle until 336 B.C., when the youth became ruler after his father was assassinated. Alexander would go on to conquer all of Greece, overthrow the Persian