An inscription fragment of Aristotle's work at the earliest
In 1896, a French archaeological team unearthed a broken inscription in an ancient well near the southwest corner of the Delphi site, which is now preserved in the Delphi Archaeological Museum.
According to the 3rd century Roman writer Diogenes Lartius's Records of Famous Philosophers, the catalogue of Aristotle's works includes one volume each of The Winners of the Pythian Games and the Commentary on the Winners of the Pythian Games (as well as The Winners of the Olympian Games
volume).
Ancient Greece did not have a unified chronology for a long time, and the chronology of each city-state was very chaotic, which made it a cumbersome task for ancient historians to coordinate the historical records of various city-states. Ancient Greek scholars noted that the quadrennial and continuous Olympian Games and the Pythian Games provided a unified chronological method, and a historical event could be linked to the number of Games + the year of someone's victory + the 1st/2nd/3rd year.
After Timaeus of Tauromenium wrote the Olympian Chronology in the 3rd century BC, Olympian chronology gradually became widely adopted among historians. Previously, historians including Aristotle compiled and published a list of winners of the Games based on the records preserved by the sanctuary, which provided the basic historical information.
The death of Calistinius in 327/8 BC by Alexander's suspicion further discorded and estranged Aristotle, but the Greeks still regarded Aristotle as a pro-Macedonian and Alexandriac. In 323 BC when news of Alexander's illness reached Greece , and the Greek states set off a wave of anti-Macedonian rule, in which Aristotle was implicated and accused of "dishonoring God", in order to avoid the Athenians committing a second sin of killing the philosopher, Aristotle left the Athens Lucion Academy to return to his mother's ancestral home of Halkis, on the island of Eubea, where he died the following year.
According to the Roman writer Claudius Aelianus (c. 170-235), Varia Historia quotes a letter from Arshi to Antipater, in which he wrote: "As for the honor given to me at Delphi (now stripped), my attitude is as follows: I am neither particularly concerned nor indifferent to it. "—so it is generally believed that the stone tablet that honored the honor was destroyed and thrown into the well just after Delphi made the decision to deprive him of it.
Resources:
Aristotle's World, translated by Jonathan Barnes, Shi Zhengyong et al., Translin Publishing House / 2013-05
Compendium of Ancient Greek Inscriptions, translated by Zhang Qiang, Zhonghua Bookstore/May 2018
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