Aristotle s nationality inadequately adressed After reading the article on Aristotle and reading some archival material regarding Aristotle s nationality I have concluded that no one including moderators have sufficiently answered this issue Was Aristotle Greek or Macedonian Moderators tend to simply shut down other individuals arguments one way or another but make no sufficient conclusion Thus I present to you some of the information which should be adressed in order to pursue a more accurate conclusion of Aristotle s origin According to the Penguin Books Classics publisher s historical biography of Aristotle in several of their current published Aristotle texts Aristotle is designated as being Macedonian not Greek due to the supposed facts that 1 he never spoke Greek since the current form of the Greek language was undeveloped Rather he spoke a tribal language of Vlach origin 2 While some simplistic historic accounts render ancient Macedonia as a Greek city state more accurate accounts reveal that Macedonia was considered by the Greeks to be a barbaric savage land 3 Aristotle was chased out of Athens due to his Macedonian origins by an anti Macedonian mob This forced Aristotle to live out the remainder of his life in exile 4 Macedonians were originally of Vlach Trachi and Illiri in addition to 4 or 5 other tribes I can not recall the names tribe origins In later centuries slavic people began moving to Macedonia however there still exists a genetic connection between many contemporary Macedonians and the original 7 or 8 tribes Aristotle supposedly had Vlach and Illiri descendants accounting for the fact that he spoke a non Greek language Keep in mind that these are not my assertions but rather the assertions of a reliable publisher and source Penguin Books And if any moderators attempt to claim that this source is unreliable I should like to remind them that Wikipedia has yet to have earned the recognition of being reliable I would find it hard to believe that any adequately educated individual would not recognize the unreliability of Wikipedia High schools and universities alike have restricted students from using Wikipedia due to its butchering of the nuance related or obscure facts Perhaps if Wikipedia staff members and writers strived to be more accurate in their articles and I certainly hope that they do Wikipedia would be well on its way to scholarly recognition