Stagyrite
Americannoun
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O’Rourke has written about that overlap of literature and philosophy in “Allwisest Stagyrite: Joyce’s Quotations From Aristotle,” among other works.
From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2015
Nature, good sense, Homer, Virgil, and the Stagyrite all, it seems, come to much the same thing.
From Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series by Stephen, Leslie, Sir
He was a native of Stagyra, in Macedonia, and is hence often called the Stagyrite.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch
Rome is not fallen, nor the fame of the Stagyrite hurt for this.
From Aurelian or, Rome in the Third Century by Ware, William
The philosophy of Plato, the power of the Athenian drama, and the learning of the Stagyrite, were a new impulse to literature.
From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry
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