Aristotle, De motu animalium
Text and Translation
Oliver Primavesi editor Christof Rapp editor Benjamin Morison editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:18th May '23
£58.00
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The book contains a new critical edition of the Greek text of Aristotle's De Motu Animalium and an English translation of the new text by Benjamin Morison, preceded by an introduction by Christof Rapp and Oliver Primavesi. The introduction comes in two parts: (i) a philosophical introduction by Christof Rapp that aims at drawing a kind of balance of more than three decades of scholarly debate on our treatise and related issues since the publication of Martha Nussbaum's edition and commentary in 1978; (ii) a textual introduction by Oliver Primavesi that sums up the history of textual research on the transmission of De Motu Animalium up to and including the discovery of a new branch of transmission.
The volume under review is, as a whole, an outstanding piece of scholarship.The new Greek text, coupled with an English translation which is not onlyreliable but also readable, and supplemented by two masterful introductions, onephilosophical and the other philological, is a more than fitting replacement forwhat was accomplished by Martha Nussbaum in her edition of Aristotle's Demotu. It is a must-have for all libraries. * Andrea Falcon, ExClass *
...the volume offers a fresh new text and well-crafted English translation of an important Aristotelian work and renders the 1978 edition of Nussbaum obsolete. The rich introduction on the philosophical substance and on the history of the text is a model of its kind. ..In a way the present volume highlights the new edition of the text, which is an achievement in Aristotelian studies and presents a new standard for future editions of Aristotle's texts. * George Karamanolis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
ISBN: 9780198874461
Dimensions: 240mm x 160mm x 20mm
Weight: 534g
250 pages