Historia Animalium Book X - Aristotle's Endoxon, Topos and Dialectic on On Failure to Reproduce (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
Release date:	June 2023
Editors:	Lesley Dean-Jones
Dimensions:	223 x 146 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	376
ISBN-13:	978-1-107-01515-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > Medicine > General issues > History of medicine Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General Books > History > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Ancient Western philosophy to c 500 > General
LSN:	1-107-01515-4
Barcode:	9781107015159

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