I2 8 GREAT MEN OF ANCIENT TIMES. 



especially in a country in which there were many wise old men, 

 and when the king is an old man it is practically certain that his 

 physician was not a young man. When we learn that this physi- 

 cian was also the personal friend of the king, it is reasonable to 

 assume that they were about the same age. As Amyntas II was 

 in the neighborhood of sixty when Aristotle was born, the most 

 reasonable place to locate Aristotle is in sub-class A 3 . Any other 

 assumption would do violence to known facts. For an estimate 

 of the greatness of Aristotle I cannot do better than to quote from 

 Myers' Ancient History. "As Socrates was surpassed by his pupil 

 Plato, so in turn was Plato excelled by his disciple Aristotle, 'the 

 master of those who know.' In him the philosophical genius of 

 the Hellenic intellect reached its culmination. It may be doubted 

 whether all the ages since his time has produced so profound an 

 intellect as his." Plato called him the "Mind of the school," and 

 when he was absent would say, "Intellect is not here to-day." 



ALCIBIADES. 



Alcibiades, the great Athenian general, was born about 450 

 B. C. He was son of Cleinias, who greatly distinguished himself 

 in the naval battle at Artemisium in 480 B. C. We do not have 

 the date of Cleinias' birth, but as the battle of Artemisium was 

 fought thirty years before the birth of x\lcibiades, and as young 

 Athenians were never sent on foreign military service before twenty 

 years of age, he could not have been less than fifty at the time of 

 his son's birth. As the probabilities that a man will "be greatly 

 distinguished" before he is twenty-five are rather remote, we can 

 safely assume that Alcibiades belongs in sub-class A 2 . 



PERICLES. 



Pericles, the greatest Athenian statesman, was born 495 B. C, 

 and was the son of Xantippus and Agarista. I have spent much 



