Even the wisest men can fall prey to immoral temptation - so warns the story of Aristotle and Phyllis. Originating in the Middle Ages, this cautionary tale took many forms, both literary and visual as shown here. Though the details of the story vary, Aristotle is said to have warned his pupil Alexander the Great about the seductions of Phyllis. Despite his own warning, Aristotle himself succumbs to Phyllis and allows her to ride him like a horse, underscoring the dangerous powers of women, who can humiliate even the greatest intellectuals. This story draws on the figure of Aristotle as a wise man and reinvents him as a morality tale, without directly engaging with any Aristotelian textual tradition. Instead, concerns about gender and power are manifested through imagining Aristotle as the archetype of the wise man undone by the over-sexed and power-hungry woman.