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Aristotle
Aristotle, detail of a Roman copy (2nd century bce) of a Greek alabaster portrait bust (c. 325 bce); in the Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome.
Aristotle died in Chalcis, a city located on the island of Euboea, in 322 BCE.123
He had fled to Chalcis from Athens in 323 BCE following the death of Alexander the Great, as anti-Macedonian sentiment in Athens made it unsafe for him to remain. Wishing to avoid the city "sinning twice against philosophy"—a reference to the execution of Socrates—he sought refuge in Chalcis, where he died of natural causes the following year.124