Aristotle of Stagira

Aristotle
Roman copy in marble of a Greek bronze bust of Aristotle by Lysippus, c. 330 BC. The alabaster mantle is modern.
Born	384 BC Stagira, Chalcidice (Chalkidiki), Chalcidian League, Northern Greece
Died	322 BC (aged 62) Euboea, Greece, Macedonian Empire
Era	Ancient philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Peripatetic school Aristotelianism
Main interests	Biology Zoology Physics Metaphysics Logic Ethics Rhetoric Music Poetry Theatre Politics Government
Notable ideas	Golden mean Aristotelian logic Syllogism Hexis Hylomorphism Theory of the soul
Influences Parmenides Socrates Plato Heraclitus Democritus
Influenced Virtually all subsequent Western philosophy, Christian philosophy and pre-Enlightenment science; also much Islamic and Jewish philosophy (see List of writers influenced by Aristotle)

Aristotle (/ˈærɪˌstɒtəl/;Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, pronounced [aristotélɛːs], Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and scientist born in the city of Stagira, Chalkidice, on the northern periphery of Classical Greece. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of Atarneus became his guardian. At seventeen or eighteen years of age, he joined Plato's Academy in Athens and remained there until the age of thirty-seven (c. 347 BC). His writings cover many subjects – including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theater, music, rhetoric, linguistics, politics and government – and constitute the first comprehensive system of Western philosophy. Shortly after Plato died, Aristotle left Athens and, at the request of Philip II of Macedon, tutored Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC.