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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 (“yoo-BEE-ah”) after receiving impiety charges. This person taught that barbarians and slaves were identical to a student he took (-5[1])under the patronage of Philip II. (10[3])A cloister (10[2])where this person and his students walked lends its name to the (10[2])Peripatetic school he founded at the Lyceum. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this tutor to Alexander the Great, a Greek philosopher who wrote the Nicomachean Ethics. ■END■

ANSWER: Aristotle [or Aristotéles]
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Claire ChambersBinghamton BU of Rochester A68-5
Kritanu SahaCornell AESF7410
Will HooverRIT BBinghamton C7410
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Alec WestSyracuseCornell B7610
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2024 ACF Fall at CornellfallY9100%0%11%82.56
2024 ACF Fall at Ohio StatefallY888%0%25%82.57
2024 ACF Fall at WashingtonfallY683%0%50%95.40
2024 ACF Fall at GeorgiafallY1191%0%27%89.30
2024 ACF Fall at North CarolinafallY10100%0%20%95.20
2024 ACF Fall at Claremont CollegesfallY5100%0%60%102.00
2024 ACF Fall at RutgersfallY888%0%38%94.00
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