... medical skills were kept secret and passed down from father to son. His mother, Phaestis, was from Chalcis in Euboea, and owned property there. When Aristotle was about ten years old, his father died, along with his mother a few years later. His guardian, Proxenus of Atuneus, who was his uncle, ... Chalcis in Euboea, in the home owned by his deceased mother. In his first year in Chalcis, he died of a stomach illness in322 BCE. Aristotle's works fall into two parts, works that were published during his lifetime and are now lost, and a collection of writings that have come down to ... are...

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