Aristotle · GA

Generation of Animals

Aristotle on animal reproduction — the sexes, semen, heredity, and the formation of the embryo — in five books.

This edition presents the original Greek (Drossaart Lulofs (OCT, 1965)) side by side with an English translation (Arthur Platt) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Bekker citation. 5 books, 60 chapters.

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• Platt Greek & English · Arthur Platt (Oxford, 1910)

Books

• Book I 23 chapters · 715a1–731b14
• Book II 8 chapters · 731b18–749a6
• Book III 11 chapters · 749a10–763b16
• Book IV 10 chapters · 763b20–778a12
• Book V 8 chapters · 778a16–789b20

Greek text & translations

Greek: H. J. Drossaart Lulofs, ed. Aristotelis de generatione animalium. Oxford: Clarendon Press (Oxford Classical Texts), 1965; repr. 1972.
Translation: Arthur Platt (Oxford, 1910).
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In print

Modern, copyright-protected translations and commentaries we can’t host here, for readers who want to go further:

• 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 printArthur Platt’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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