Historia Animalium Book X

Aristotle's Endoxon, Topos and Dialectic on on Failure to Reproduce
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-107-01515-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 61, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 219 mm, Gewicht: 470 g

Reihe: Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dean-Jones, Lesley

Weitere Mitwirkende

Dean-Jones, Lesley

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Sigla; Outline of plan of HA X; Text; Translation; Commentary

Über Autor(innen)

Dean-Jones, Lesley
Lesley Dean-Jones is a Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Women's Bodies in Classical Greek Science (1994) and co-editor, with Ralph Rosen, of Ancient Concepts of the Hippocratic (2015).