Historia Animalium Book X
Aristotle's Endoxon, Topos and Dialectic on On Failure to Reproduce
Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-01515-9 (ISBN)
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-01515-9 (ISBN)
New edition arguing that the book is a summary by Aristotle of a fourth-century medical treatise. The treatise makes clear advances over Hippocratic gynaecology, and Aristotle's comments on it illustrate the early stages of his reproductive theory. HA X is a central text for ancient gynaecology and Aristotelian methodology.
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.
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.
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).
Introduction; Sigla; Outline of plan of HA X; Text; Translation; Commentary
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.10.2022 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries |
| Übersetzer | Lesley Dean-Jones |
| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 146 x 223 mm |
| Gewicht | 470 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-107-01515-4 / 1107015154 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-107-01515-9 / 9781107015159 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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