Chronological Order of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Alexander
1.
Greek poet Homer: The Greek poet Homer was born sometime between the 12th
and 8th centuries BC, possibly somewhere on the coast of Asia Minor. He is famous
for the epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey, which have had an enormous effect
on Western culture, but very little is known about their alleged author.
2.
Socrates:Socrates lived from 470 to 399. He is most admired for his irony in undermining
conventional ideas. He was Plato’s teacher.
3.
Plato:Plato lived from 428 to 348. He is famous for creating the notion that
ideas rule the world. He was Aristotle’s teacher.
4.
Aristotle:Aristotle lived from 384 to 322. He is best remembered for setting the basis to
logics as a method. He taught Alexander the Great.
5.
Alexander the Great:
And who was Alexander the Great? 356 to 323
When he died at the age of 33, he had overrun half the world with his armies. He wasnever
defeated, died of a cold.
Alexander III of Macedon, commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Ancient Greek
kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty. Wikipedia
Born: July 356 BC, Pella, Greece
Died: June 323 BC, Babylon, Iraq
Full name: Alexander III of Macedon
Parents: Philip II of Macedon, Olympias
Spouse: Roxana (m. 328 BC–324 BC), Stateira II (m. 325 BC–324 BC), Parysatis II (m. 325 BC–324
BC)
Siblings: Cleopatra of Macedon, Philip III of Macedon, Cynane, Thessalonike of
Macedon, Caranus, Europa of Macedon.
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (Persian: ‫)جاللالدین محمد رومی‬, also known as Jalāl ad-Dīn
Muhammad
Balkhī (‫الدینجالل‬
‫محمد‬
‫)بلخى‬, Mawlānā/Mevlânâ (‫موالنا‬,
"our
master"), Mevlevî/Mawlawī (‫مولوی‬, "my master"), and more popularly simply as Rumi (30
September 1207 – 17 December 1273), was a 13th-Century Persian[1][7] poet, jurist, Islamic
scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic.[8]Rumi's influence transcends national borders and ethnic
divisions: Iranians, Tajiks, Turks, Greeks, Pashtuns, other Central Asian Muslims, and the
Muslims of South Asia have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy for the past seven
centuries.[9] His poems have been widely translated into many of the world's languages and
transposed into various formats. Rumi has been described as the "most popular poet"[10] and the
"best selling poet" in the United States.