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Also Known As	Aristoteles
Born	384 BCE • Greece • ancient Greece
Died	322 BCE • Chalcis • Greece
Founder	Lyceum
Notable Works	“Categories” • “Eudemian Ethics” • “History of Animals” • “Metaphysica” • “Nicomachean Ethics” • “Ode to Virtue” • “On Generation and Corruption” • “On Interpretation” • “On the Generation of Animals” • “On the Heavens” • “On the Parts of Animals” • “On the Soul” • “Organon” • “Physics” • “Poetics” • “Politics” • “Posterior Analytics” • “Prior Analytics” • “Protrepticus” • “Rhetoric” • “Sophistical Refutations” • “Topics”
Subjects Of Study	biology • zoology • Aristotelianism • category • dialectic • ekthesis • element • entelechy • enthymeme • fallacy • golden mean • hylomorphism • idea • nous • oligarchy • polis • predicable • prime mover • rhetoric • soul • syllogistic • table of opposites • teleology • universal

Only about a fifth of Aristotle's works are extant.
No complete finished work of Aristotle has survived. His extant works consist of fragments of finished writings; manuscripts that he used in teaching; and lecture notes by him or his students.
After the death of his wife Pythias, Aristotle lived with a woman named Herpyllis, with whom he had a son, Nichomachus, named after Aristotles father. Although Herpyllis was of inferior social status (she could have been a slave or a freed servant), Aristotle was very fond of her and made generous provisions for her in his will.