Aristotle was born in 384 BCE in Stageira. A Greek philosopher and scientist, Aristotle was born in Stagira, studied for twenty years at Plato's Academy in Athens and later tutored the young Alexander the Great. He founded his own school, the Lyceum, where he and his pupils studied logic, physics, biology, ethics, politics, poetry and rhetoric. He created the first systematic logic, the syllogism, and made detailed observations of animals. His works, such as the Nicomachean Ethics, the Politics and the Metaphysics, were studied in the Islamic world and medieval Europe and dominated Western thought for centuries.
Before and after
- from 398 BCE to 378 BCETwenty-ninth Dynasty of Egypt
- from 395 BCE to 387 BCECorinthian War
- c. 391 BCEThe Gauls sack Rome
- from 387 BCE to 529 CEConstruction of Platonic Academy
- 384 BCEBirth of Aristotle
- from 380 BCE to 343 BCEThirtieth Dynasty of Egypt
- c. 375 BCEWriting of The Republic
- c. 375 BCEWriting of the Allegory of the Cave
- 375 BCEBirth of Chanakya
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