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This person is the oldest in a series of supposed letters documented in the Arabic manuscript Secret of Secrets. Plutarch hinted that this person engaged in a poisoning plot after a ruler executed this person’s great-nephew Callisthenes. This native of Stagira refused to let Athens “sin twice” and fled to Euboea (-5[1])(“yoo-BEE-ah”) after receiving impiety charges. This person taught that barbarians and slaves were identical to a student he took under the patronage (10[1]-5[1])of Philip II. (10[3])A cloister (10[1])where this person (10[1])and his students (-5[1])walked lends its name to the Peripatetic school he founded at the Lyceum. For 10 points, name this tutor to Alexander the Great, (10[2])a Greek philosopher who wrote the Nicomachean Ethics. ■END■

ANSWER: Aristotle [or Aristotéles]
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2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY9100%0%11%82.56
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