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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. (-5[1])This person (-5[1])taught that barbarians and slaves were identical to a student he took under the patronage of Philip II. (10[1])A cloister where this person and his students walked lends its name to the Peripatetic school he founded at the Lyceum. (10[1])For 10 points, name this tutor to Alexander the Great, a Greek philosopher who wrote the Nicomachean Ethics. (10[1])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Aristotle [or Aristotéles]
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