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Historia Animalium Book X - Aristotle's Endoxon, Topos and Dialectic on On Failure to Reproduce (Hardcover)
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Historia Animalium Book X - Aristotle's Endoxon, Topos and Dialectic on On Failure to Reproduce (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
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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.
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