Written work
Eudemus, or On the Soul
Εὔδημος ἢ περὶ ψυχῆς
A dialogue of consolation on the immortality of the soul, in the wake of Plato's Phaedo. The fragments tell of Eudemus's prophetic dream and present the soul's life in the body as an exile; they also record Silenus's verdict to King Midas that the best thing for man is not to be born and, next best, to die as soon as possible.
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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. Dedicated to the memory of Eudemus of Cyprus, Aristotle's friend who died in Sicily around 354 BCE.
Editions and translations
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English
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
Aristotle
Aristotelis qui ferebantur librorum fragmenta (ed. Valentin Rose)
The Conscious LibraryAristotelis 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.
Español
Fragmentos
Gredos (Biblioteca Clásica Gredos, 338), 2005
Translation: Álvaro Vallejo Campos
ISBN 9788424927714
Other works by Aristotle
- Categories
- 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
- 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
- Will · 322
- 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
- 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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