Aristotle
Will
Written work
Will
Διαθήκη
Aristotle's last dispositions: he names Antipater as executor, provides for his daughter's marriage to Nicanor, protects Herpyllis and their son Nicomachus, frees several slaves, orders statues of his family and asks to be buried beside the remains of his wife Pythias. It is the most personal document of his that we possess.
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Authorship note
A document preserved by Diogenes Laertius (V 11–16), who says he came across it. Most specialists regard it as substantially authentic; Arabic versions also exist.
Editions and translations
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English
Aristotle
Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. I (Diógenes Laercio, libro V)
The Conscious LibraryLives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. I (Diógenes Laercio, libro V)
Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library, 184), 1925
Translation: R. D. Hicks
Contiene el testamento en traducción inglesa (V 11–16).
Español
Aristotle
Los diez libros de Diógenes Laercio sobre las vidas, opiniones y sentencias de los filósofos más ilustres (libro V)
The Conscious LibraryLos diez libros de Diógenes Laercio sobre las vidas, opiniones y sentencias de los filósofos más ilustres (libro V)
Imprenta Real, 1792
Translation: José Ortiz y Sanz
Contiene la vida de Aristóteles con el himno y el testamento; texto en Wikisource.
Other works by Aristotle
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- On Interpretation (De interpretatione)
- Prior Analytics
- Posterior Analytics
- Topics
- Sophistical Refutations
- Physics
- On the Heavens (De caelo)
- On Generation and Corruption
- Meteorology (Meteorologica)
- On the Cosmos (De mundo)
- On the Soul (De anima)
- On Sense and the Sensible
- On Memory and Recollection
- On Sleep and Waking
- On Dreams
- On Divination in Sleep
- On Length and Shortness of Life
- On Youth and Old Age, On Life and Death
- On Respiration
- On Breath (De spiritu)
- History of Animals (Historia animalium)
- Parts of Animals
- Movement of Animals (De motu animalium)
- Progression of Animals (De incessu animalium)
- Generation of Animals
- On Colours (De coloribus)
- On Things Heard (De audibilibus)
- Physiognomics (Physiognomonica)
- On Plants (De plantis)
- On Marvellous Things Heard (De mirabilibus auscultationibus)
- Mechanical Problems (Mechanica)
- Problems (Problemata)
- On Indivisible Lines (De lineis insecabilibus)
- Situations and Names of Winds (Ventorum situs)
- On Melissus, Xenophanes and Gorgias
- Metaphysics
- Nicomachean Ethics
- Magna Moralia
- Eudemian Ethics
- On Virtues and Vices
- Politics
- Economics (Oeconomica)
- Rhetoric
- Rhetoric to Alexander (Rhetorica ad Alexandrum)
- Poetics
- Constitution of the Athenians (Athenaion Politeia) · 328
- Protrepticus (Exhortation to Philosophy) · 350
- On Philosophy
- Eudemus, or On the Soul
- Gryllus, or On Rhetoric · 360
- On Ideas
- On the Good
- On Poets
- Homeric Problems
- Constitutions of 158 Cities
- List of Pythian Victors · 335
- Didascaliae (Records of Dramatic Productions)
- On Justice
- On Kingship and Alexander, or On Behalf of Colonists
- Hymn to Virtue (to Hermias) · 341
- Letters
- Fragments (collections of the lost works)
- Theology of Aristotle · 840
- Book of Causes (Liber de causis) · 850
- Secret of Secrets (Secretum secretorum) · 950
Sources
- Diógenes Laercio. Vidas de los filósofos ilustres, libro V, 1–35 («Aristóteles»). Trad. inglesa de R. D. Hicks, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, vol. I, Loeb Classical Library 184. Londres: Heinemann, 1925 (texto en Wikisource).
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