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On Marvellous Things Heard (De mirabilibus auscultationibus) — Aristotle

Traditional attribution

On Marvellous Things Heard (De mirabilibus auscultationibus)

Περὶ θαυμασίων ἀκουσμάτων

Busto de Aristóteles (Museo Nacional Romano, Palazzo Altemps)
byAristotle

A collection of one hundred and seventy-eight curious reports about animals, plants, minerals, springs and customs of distant peoples, of the kind antiquity called paradoxography. Its interest is documentary: it preserves information from lost works.

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Editions and translations · 3

EnglishGriego antiguo

Authorship note

Spurious: transmitted in the Aristotelian corpus but written by other authors, generally later Peripatetics. A Hellenistic compilation by various hands, drawing on Theophrastus, Timaeus of Tauromenium and others. Bekker 830a–847b.

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.

  • Minor Works: On Colours. On Things Heard. Physiognomics. On Plants. On Marvellous Things Heard. Mechanical Problems. On Indivisible Lines. Situations and Names of Winds. On Melissus, Xenophanes, Gorgias — Aristotle

    Minor Works: On Colours. On Things Heard. Physiognomics. On Plants. On Marvellous Things Heard. Mechanical Problems. On Indivisible Lines. Situations and Names of Winds. On Melissus, Xenophanes, Gorgias

    Harvard University Press (Loeb Classical Library, 307), 1936

    Translation: W. S. Hett

    ISBN 9780674993389

    Reimpresión registrada en 1963.

Griego antiguo

  • Aristotelis Opera, vol. II (ed. Immanuel Bekker)

    G. Reimer / Academia Regia Borussica, 1831

    Edición crítica de referencia; su paginación (Bekker) es el sistema universal de cita.

Other works by Aristotle

Sources

  • Kraye, Jill; Ryan, W. F.; Schmitt, C. B. (eds.). Pseudo-Aristotle in the Middle Ages: The Theology and Other Texts. Londres: The Warburg Institute, 1986.

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