Aristotle · Met.

Metaphysics

Aristotle’s inquiry into being, substance, and the unmoved mover, in fourteen books.

This edition presents the original Greek (Ross (OCT, 1953)) side by side with an English translation (W. D. Ross) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Bekker citation. 14 books, 142 chapters.

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Books

• Book Α 10 chapters · 980a21–29
• Book α 3 chapters · 993a30–995a20
• Book Β 6 chapters · 995a24–1003a17
• Book Γ 8 chapters · 1003a21–1012b31
• Book Δ 30 chapters · 1012b34–34
• Book Ε 4 chapters · 1025b3–1028a6
• Book Ζ 17 chapters · 1028a10–1041b33
• Book Η 6 chapters · 1042a3–1045b23
• Book Θ 10 chapters · 1045b27–1052a11
• Book Ι 10 chapters · 1052a15–1059a14
• Book Κ 12 chapters · 1059a18–1069a14
• Book Λ 10 chapters · 1069a18–1076a4
• Book Μ 10 chapters · 1076a8–1087a25
• Book Ν 6 chapters · 1087a29–1093b29

Greek text & translations

Greek: W. D. Ross, ed. Aristotle’s Metaphysics. 2 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953.
Translation: W. D. Ross (Oxford, 1924).
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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, Metaphysics (Hackett, 2016) Find in print →
• TranslationHippocrates G. Apostle, Aristotle’s Metaphysics (Indiana University Press, 1966) Find in print →
• CommentaryW. D. Ross, Aristotle’s Metaphysics: A Revised Text with Introduction and Commentary, 2 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1924) Find in print →

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

• In printW. D. Ross’s translation, found in Richard McKeon, ed., The Basic Works of Aristotle (Random House, 1941; repr. Modern Library, 2001) Find in print →
• In printW. D. 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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