Death of Aristotle

Aristotle died in 322 BCE in Chalcis, aged about 62. 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.

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