Aristotle · Juv.

On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration

Aristotle on youth and old age, life and death, and the role of respiration.

This edition presents the original Greek (Ross (OCT, 1955)) side by side with an English translation (G. R. T. Ross) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Bekker citation. 27 chapters.

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Greek text & translations

Greek: W. D. Ross, ed. Aristotle: Parva Naturalia. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1955; repr. 1970.
Translation: G. R. T. Ross (Oxford, 1908).
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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 →

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• In printG. R. T. Ross’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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