Corpus Aristotelicum

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On Generation and Corruption
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History of Animals
Metaphysics
Metaphysics
Ethics
Politics
Nicomachean Ethics
Eudemian Ethics
Magna Moralia
On Virtues and Vices
Politics
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Rhetoric
Poetics
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On the Universe
Mechanics
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The end of Sophistical Refutations and beginning of Physics on page 184 ofBekker's 1831 edition.
The Corpus Aristotelicum is the collection of Aristotle's works that have survived from
antiquity through Medieval manuscript transmission. These texts, as opposed to Aristotle's
lost works, are technical philosophical treatises from within Aristotle's school. Reference to
them is made according to the organization of Immanuel Bekker's nineteenth-century
edition, which in turn is based on ancient classifications of these works.
Contents
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1 Overview of the extant works

2 Bekker numbers
3 Aristotle's works by Bekker numbers
4 Aristotelian works lacking Bekker numbers
o 4.1 Constitution of the Athenians
o 4.2 Fragments
5 Notes
6 External links
Overview of the extant works[edit]

The extant works of Aristotle are broken down according to the five categories in the
Corpus Aristotelicum. Not all of these works are considered genuine, but differ with respect
to their connection to Aristotle, his associates and his views. Some are regarded by most
scholars as products of Aristotle's "school" and compiled under his direction or supervision.
(The Constitution of Athens, the only major modern addition to the Corpus Aristotelicum,
has also been so regarded.) Other works, such as On Colors may have been products of
Aristotle's successors at the Lyceum, e.g., Theophrastus and Strato of Lampsacus. Still
others acquired Aristotle's name through similarities in doctrine or content, such as the De
Plantis, possibly by Nicolaus of Damascus. A final category, omitted here, includes

medieval palmistries, astrological and magical texts whose connection to Aristotle is purely
fanciful and self-promotional.
In several of the treatises, there are references to other works in the corpus. Based on such
references, some scholars have suggested a possible chronological order for a number of
Aristotle's writings. W.D. Ross, for instance, suggested the following broad chronology
(which of course leaves out much): Categories, Topics, Sophistici
Elenchi, Analytics, Metaphysics , the physical works, the Ethics, and the rest of
the Metaphysics.[1] Many modern scholars, however, based simply on lack of evidence, are
skeptical of such attempts to determine the chronological order of Aristotle's writings.[2]
Bekker numbers[edit]
Bekker numbers, the standard form of reference to works in the Corpus Aristotelicum, are
based on the page numbers used in the Prussian Academy of Sciences edition of the
complete works of Aristotle (Aristotelis Opera edidit Academia Regia Borussica, Berlin,
18311870). They take their name from the editor of that edition, the
classical philologist August Immanuel Bekker (17851871).
Bekker numbers take the format of up to four digits, a letter for column 'a' or 'b', then the
line number. For example, the beginning of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is 1094a1,
which corresponds to page 1094 of Bekker's edition of the Greek text of Aristotle's works,
first column, line 1.
All modern editions or translations of Aristotle intended for scholarly readers use Bekker
numbers, in addition to or instead of page numbers. Contemporary scholars writing on
Aristotle use the Bekker number so that the author's citations can be checked by readers
without having to use the same edition or translation that the author used.
While Bekker numbers are the dominant method used to refer to the works of
Aristotle, Catholic or Thomist scholars often use the medieval method of reference by book,
chapter, and sentence, albeit generally in addition to Bekker numbers.
Stephanus pagination is the comparable system for referring to the works of Plato.
Aristotle's works by Bekker numbers[edit]

The following list is complete. The titles are given in accordance with the standard set by
the Revised Oxford Translation.[3] Latin titles, still often used by scholars, are also given.
Key
[?]
Strikethrough
Bekker
number
Work
Logic
Organon
Authenticity disputed.
Generally agreed to be spurious.
Latin name
1a
Categories
Categoriae
16a
On Interpretation
De Interpretatione
24a
Prior Analytics
Analytica Priora
71a
Posterior Analytics
Analytica Posteriora
100a
Topics
Topica
164a
Sophistical Refutations
De Sophisticis Elenchis
Physics (natural philosophy)

184a
Physics
Physica
268a
On the Heavens
De Caelo
314a
On Generation and Corruption
De Generatione et Corruptione
338a
Meteorology
Meteorologica
391a
On the Universe
De Mundo
402a
On the Soul
De Anima
Parva Naturalia ("Little Physical Treatises")
436a
Sense and Sensibilia
De Sensu et Sensibilibus
449b
On Memory
De Memoria et Reminiscentia
453b
On Sleep
De Somno et Vigilia
458a
On Dreams
De Insomniis
462b
On Divination in Sleep
De Divinatione per Somnum
464b
On Length and Shortness

of Life
De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae
467b
On Youth, Old Age, Life

and Death, and Respiration
De Juventute et Senectute, De
Vita et Morte, De Respiratione
481a
On Breath
De Spiritu
486a
History of Animals
Historia Animalium
639a
Parts of Animals
De Partibus Animalium
698a
Movement of Animals
De Motu Animalium
704a
Progression of Animals
De Incessu Animalium
715a
Generation of Animals
De Generatione Animalium
791a
On Colors
De Coloribus
800a
On Things Heard
De audibilibus
805a
Physiognomonics
Physiognomonica
815a
On Plants
De Plantis
830a
On Marvellous Things Heard
De mirabilibus auscultationibus
847a
Mechanics
Mechanica
859a
[?] Problems
[?] Problemata
968a
On Indivisible Lines
De Lineis Insecabilibus
973a
The Situations and Names

of Winds
Ventorum Situs
974a
On Melissus, Xenophanes,
and Gorgias
Metaphysics
980a
Metaphysics
Metaphysica
Ethics and politics

1094a
Nicomachean Ethics
Ethica Nicomachea
1181a
[?] Great Ethics
[?] Magna Moralia
1214a
Eudemian Ethics
Ethica Eudemia
1249a
On Virtues and Vices
De Virtutibus et Vitiis Libellus
1252a
Politics
Politica
1343a
[?] Economics
[?] Oeconomica
Rhetoric and poetics

1354a
Rhetoric
Ars Rhetorica
1420a
Rhetoric to Alexander
Rhetorica ad Alexandrum
1447a
Poetics
Ars Poetica
Aristotelian works lacking Bekker numbers[edit]

Constitution of the Athenians[edit]
The Constitution of the Athenians (or Athenain Politeia) was not included in Bekker's
edition, because it was first edited in 1891 from papyrus rolls acquired in 1890 by
the British Museum. The standard reference to it is by section (and subsection) numbers.
Fragments[edit]
Surviving fragments of the many lost works of Aristotle were included in the fifth volume of
Bekker's edition, edited by Valentin Rose. These are not cited by Bekker numbers,
however, but according to fragment numbers. Rose's first edition of the fragments
of Aristotle was Aristoteles Pseudepigraphus (1863). As the title suggests, Rose
considered these all to be spurious. The numeration of the fragments in a revised edition by
Rose, published in the Teubner series, Aristotelis qui ferebantur librorum fragmenta,
Leipzig, 1886, is still commonly used (indicated by R3), although there is a more current
edition with a different numeration by Olof Gigon (published in 1987 as a new vol. 3
in Walter de Gruyter's reprint of the Bekker edition), and a new de Gruyter edition by Eckart
Schtrumpf is in preparation.[4]
For a selection of the fragments in English translation, see W.D. Ross, Select
Fragments (Oxford 1952), and Jonathan Barnes (ed.), The Complete Works of Aristotle:
The Revised Oxford Translation, vol. 2, Princeton 1984, pp. 23842465.
The works surviving only in fragments include the dialogues On Philosophy (or On the
Good), Eudemus (or On the Soul), Protrepticus, On Justice, and On Good Birth. The
possibly spurious work, On Ideas survives in quotations by Alexander of Aphrodisias in his
commentary on Aristotle's Metaphysics. For the dialogues, see also the editions ofRichard
Rudolf Walzer, Aristotelis Dialogorum fragmenta, in usum scholarum (Florence 1934), and
Renato Laurenti, Aristotele: I frammenti dei dialoghi (2 vols.), Naples: Luigi Loffredo, 1987.

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Part of a series on the

Natural philosophy (physics)

Ideas and interests[show]

1 Overview of the extant works

Overview of the extant works[edit]

Plantis, possibly by Nicolaus of Damascus. A final category, omitted here, includes

Aristotle's works by Bekker numbers[edit]

Physics (natural philosophy)

On Generation and Corruption

Parva Naturalia ("Little Physical Treatises")

Sense and Sensibilia

De Divinatione per Somnum

On Length and Shortness

De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae

On Youth, Old Age, Life

On Marvellous Things Heard

The Situations and Names

Ethics and politics

[?] Great Ethics

[?] Magna Moralia

On Virtues and Vices

De Virtutibus et Vitiis Libellus

Rhetoric and poetics

Aristotelian works lacking Bekker numbers[edit]

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