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History of Animals: Books 1-3

Series: Loeb Classical Library Volume: 437
By: Aristotle(Author), Arthur Leslie Peck(Translated by)
239 pages, no illustrations
History of Animals: Books 1-3
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Language: English

The Loeb Classical Library is the only existing series that, through original text and English translation, gives access to all that is important in Greek and Latin literature.

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 bound in three volumes. A full index to all ten books is included in volume three.

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Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BC, was the son of a physician. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367–347); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil in Asia Minor. After some time at Mitylene, in 343–342, he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to be tutor of his teenage son Alexander. After Philip’s death in 336, Aristotle became head of his own school (of “Peripatetics”), the Lyceum at Athens. Because of anti-Macedonian feeling there after Alexander’s death in 323, he withdrew to Chalcis in Euboea, where he died in 322.

Arthur Leslie Peck (1902-1974) was a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge.