Format:
1 online resource
ISBN:
9780674994812
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9780674996564
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9780674994836
Series Statement:
Loeb Classical Library 437
Content:
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, In History of Animals, Aristotle analyzes "differences"--in parts, activities, modes of life, and character--across the animal kingdom, in preparation for establishing their causes, which are the concern of his other zoological works. Over 500 species of animals are considered: shellfish, insects, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals--including human beings. In Books I-IV, Aristotle gives a comparative survey of internal and external body parts, including tissues and fluids, and of sense faculties and voice. Books V-VI study reproductive methods, breeding habits, and embryogenesis as well as some secondary sex differences. In Books VII-IX, Aristotle examines differences among animals in feeding; in habitat, hibernation, migration; in enmities and sociability; in disposition (including differences related to gender) and intelligence. Here too he describes the human reproductive system, conception, pregnancy, and obstetrics. Book X establishes the female's contribution to generation. The Loeb Classical Library edition of History of Animals is in three volumes. A full index to all ten books is included in the third (Volume XI of the Aristotle edition)
Content:
v. I. Books 1-3 / edited and translated by A.L. Peck -- v. II. Books 4-6 / edited and translated by A.L. Peck -- v. III. Books 7-10 / edited and translated by D.M. Balme
Note:
Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674994812(v.1)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674996564(v.2)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780674994836(v.3)
Additional Edition:
Print version Aristotle History of animals Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press, 1965
Language:
English
Author information:
Aristoteles v384-v322
