Historia Animalium Book X
Aristotle's Endoxon, Topos and Dialectic on On Failure to Reproduce
Series:
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries;
61;
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication: 8 June 2023
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Product details:
ISBN13: | 9781107015159 |
ISBN10: | 1107015154 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 376 pages |
Size: | 223x146x21 mm |
Weight: | 470 g |
Language: | English |
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Short description:
New edition of a key work in the development of Aristotle's theory of reproduction.
Long description:
This is the first modern edition of Book X of the Historia Animalium. It argues that the first five chapters are a summary, from the hand of Aristotle, of a medical treatise by a physician practicing in the fourth-century BCE. This gives short shrift to Hippocratic staples such as trapped menses and the wandering womb, and describes a woman's climax during sex in terms that can be easily mapped onto modern accounts. In summarizing the treatise and examining its claims in the last two chapters, Aristotle follows the method described in the Topics for a philosopher embarking on a new field of study. Here we see Aristotle's ruminations over the conundrum of a woman's contribution to conception at an early stage in the development of his theory of reproduction. Far from being an insignificant pseudepigraphon, this is a central text for understanding the development of ancient gynaecology and Aristotelian methodology.
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Sigla; Outline of plan of HA X; Text; Translation; Commentary