History of animals / Aristotle.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Aristotle, author.

Contributor:

• Balme, D. M. (David M.), 1912-1989, editor, translator.
• Peck, A. L. (Arthur Leslie), 1902-1974, translator.

Series:

• Loeb classical library ; 437-439.
• Loeb Classical Library ; 437-439

Language:

• English
• Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

• Zoology--Pre-Linnean works.
• Zoology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : graphs, tables, line drawing.

Other Title:

Digital Loeb.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

Text in Greek with English translation on facing pages.

System Details:

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• text file

Summary:

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).

Contents:

• 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.

Notes:

• Includes index.
• Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Aristotle. History of animals.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.