Nearly all the works Aristotle (384-322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost
the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as practical
logical
physical
metaphysical
on art
other
fragments. Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367-47)
subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias's relations. After some time at Mitylene, in 343-2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teen-aged son Alexander. After Philip's death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of "Peripatetics"), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander's death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322. Nearly all the works Aristotle prepared for publication are lost
the priceless ones extant are lecture-materials, notes, and memoranda (some are spurious). They can be categorized as follows:I. Practical: Nicomachean Ethics
Great Ethics (Magna Moralia)
Eudemian Ethics
Politics
Oeconomica (on the good of the family)
Virtues and Vices. II. Logical: Categories
On Interpretation
Analytics (Prior and Posterior)
On Sophistical Refutations
Topica. III. Physical: Twenty-six works (some suspect) including astronomy, generation and destruction, the senses, memory, sleep, dreams, life, facts about animals, etc. IV. Metaphysics: on being as being. V. On Art: Art of Rhetoric and Poetics. VI. Other works including the Athenian Constitution
more works also of doubtful authorship. VII. Fragments of various works such as dialogues on philosophy and literature
and of treatises on rhetoric, politics and metaphysics. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Aristotle is in twenty-three volumes.
Includes index.