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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 English translations (J. A. Smith, Edwin Wallace) — 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)
• Wallace Greek & English · Edwin Wallace (Cambridge, 1882)

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.
Translations: J. A. Smith (Oxford, 1931); Edwin Wallace (Cambridge, 1882).
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In print

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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