Do we truly understand the ideas and thoughts of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle? Funded by the European Research Council, the FragArist project will answer this question by shedding new light on what were initially considered the most representative among the many works of Aristotle. Specifically, the project will combine methods taken from philology, papyrology, philosophy, ancient history and digital humanities, as well as novel editing and imaging techniques. The goal is to move our attention from the long-studied extant works, which were primarily addressed to Aristotle’s students, to reconstructing and interpreting fragments: lost works on politics, history, ethics, poetry, rhetoric, science, and other writings cited by later authors. FragArist will enable a comprehensive understanding of Aristotelian philosophy and its impact on the western world.