HE TAUGHT FOR TWELVE years or so. But then Alexander died in Babylon. The Athenians celebrated once again. The anti-Macedonian party turned nasty. They accused Aristotle of praying to Hermias, his friend, dead so long ago, and charged him with impiety. Politics were certainly at play. Had they wanted to get him for heresy they should have attended his lectures on astrotheology. The Delphians had honoured him (and Callisthenes) for recording the victors of the Pythian Games. Now they revoked the honours and smashed the tablet on which they had been proclaimed. He decided to leave. ‘I will not
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