Aristotle · GC

On Generation and Corruption

Aristotle on coming-to-be, passing-away, mixture, and the elements, in two books.

This edition presents the original Greek (Joachim (Oxford, 1922)) side by side with an English translation (H. H. Joachim) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Bekker citation. 2 books, 21 chapters.

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• Joachim Greek & English · H. H. Joachim (Oxford, 1922)

Books

• Book I 10 chapters · 314a1–328b22
• Book II 11 chapters · 328b26–338b19

Greek text & translations

Greek: H. H. Joachim, ed. Aristotle on Coming-to-be and Passing-away (De Generatione et Corruptione). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1922.
Translation: H. H. Joachim (Oxford, 1922).
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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 printH. H. Joachim’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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