Assos

“All men by nature desire to know.” This is the first sentence of Aristotle’s ‘Metaphysics’. But did you know that the man who wrote it once lived in a city on the volcanic hill of Assos, facing Lesbos, and founded a school of philosophy here? After Plato’s death, Aristotle left Athens and spent a few years here in the mid-4th century BC, as the guest of Hermias, ruler of the region…