Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath. He lived during the Classical period in Ancient Greece.
Aristotle was born in Northern Greece. Nicomachus, his father, died when Aristotle was a child, and he was brought up by a guardian. He joined Plato’s Academy in Athens at the age of seventeen or eighteen and stayed there till the age of thirty-seven.
Aristotle left Athens after the death of Plato. He tutored Alexander the Great beginning in 343 BC at the request of Philip II of Macedon. He established a library in the Lyceum. There he produced many of his hundreds of books on papyrus scrolls.
Aristotle wrote about various subjects including metaphysics, logic, ethics, esthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, physics, biology, zoology, economics, politics, and government. He provided a synthesis of the various philosophies existing before him. His philosophy continues to influence almost every form of knowledge in the West.
There are mountains in Antarctica named Aristotle Mountains after him. A crater on the Moon is named Aristoteles after him.