When she was two years old, her father got a job as an airport manager in Amman. The whole family moved to the Jordanian capital and lived there for the next two years.
Aristotle remained in the Academy until 37 years of age.
After Plato’s death in 348 or 347, his nephew Speusippus took control of the academy. It is unknown, however, whether that was the reason Aristotle decided to leave the academy.