Aristotle was born in 384 BC in Stagira, in Chalkidiki in northern Greece. At about eighteen he joined Plato’s Academy in Athens, and from 343 BC he was tutor to the young Alexander the Great. He later set up his own school in Athens, at the Lyceum, which became known as the Peripatetic school.
His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology and the arts. He died in 322 BC in Chalcis, on the island of Euboea.