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De Anima

Aristotle on the soul, perception, and intellect, in three books.

This edition presents the original Greek (Ross (OCT, 1956)) side by side with an English translation (J. A. Smith) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Bekker citation. 3 books, 30 chapters.

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• Smith Greek & English · J. A. Smith (Oxford, 1931)

Books

• Book I 5 chapters · 402a1–411b30
• Book II 12 chapters · 412a3–424b18
• Book III 13 chapters · 424b22–435b25

Greek text & translations

Greek: W. D. Ross, ed. Aristotle, De Anima. Oxford: Clarendon Press (Oxford Classical Texts), 1956.
Translation: J. A. Smith (Oxford, 1931).
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Modern, copyright-protected translations and commentaries we can’t host here, for readers who want to go further:

• TranslationChristopher Shields, De Anima (Clarendon Aristotle Series, Oxford University Press, 2016) Find in print →
• TranslationHugh Lawson-Tancred, De Anima (On the Soul) (Penguin Classics, 1986) Find in print →
• TranslationHippocrates G. Apostle, Aristotle’s On the Soul (The Peripatetic Press, 1981) Find in print →
• TranslationC. D. C. Reeve, trans., in Aristotle: The Complete Works, 2 vols. (Hackett, 2024) Find in print →

Prefer a paper copy? These in-print editions carry the translation read here (or a revision of it):

• In printJ. A. Smith’s translation, found in Richard McKeon, ed., The Basic Works of Aristotle (Random House, 1941; repr. Modern Library, 2001) Find in print →
• In printJ. A. Smith’s translation, revised, found in Jonathan Barnes, ed., The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation, 2 vols. (Princeton University Press, 1984) Find in print →

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