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On Kingship and Alexander, or On Behalf of Colonists — Aristotle

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On Kingship and Alexander, or On Behalf of Colonists

Περὶ βασιλείας / Ἀλέξανδρος ἢ ὑπὲρ ἀποίκων

Busto de Aristóteles (Museo Nacional Romano, Palazzo Altemps)
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Political writings probably addressed to the young Alexander. From On Kingship survives the advice that the king need not philosophise but should listen to true philosophers; from the second, the report that he advised treating Greeks as a leader and barbarians as a master.

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Authorship note

A lost work, surviving only in fragments and testimonies preserved by later authors. It belongs to the “exoteric” writings, intended for a wide public, which Aristotle published in his lifetime and which antiquity read more than the treatises. Two short writings that tradition links with Alexander's education.

Editions and translations

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English

  • The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation — Aristotle

    The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation

    Princeton University Press, 1984

    Translation: Varios (traducción de Oxford revisada, ed. Jonathan Barnes)

    ISBN 0691016518

    Edición en dos volúmenes (Bollingen Series LXXI.2); ISBN del registro de Open Library de la obra completa.

Griego antiguo

  • Aristotelis qui ferebantur librorum fragmenta (ed. Valentin Rose)

    Teubner, 1886

    Edición clásica de los fragmentos; la de Olof Gigon (De Gruyter, 1987) es la más reciente.

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Other works by Aristotle

Sources

  • Rose, Valentin (ed.). Aristotelis qui ferebantur librorum fragmenta. Leipzig: Teubner, 1886; y Gigon, Olof (ed.). Aristotelis Opera III: Librorum deperditorum fragmenta. Berlín: De Gruyter, 1987.

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