Aristotle · Oec.

Oeconomica

Spurious Authorship traditionally doubted — transmitted in the Aristotelian corpus but widely judged not to be by Aristotle.

Οἰκονομικά

A short treatise on household and civic economy — transmitted with Aristotle but not by him.

This edition presents the original Greek (van Groningen and Wartelle (Les Belles Lettres, 1968)) side by side with an English translation (E. S. Forster) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Bekker citation. 2 books, 8 chapters.

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• Forster Greek & English · E. S. Forster (Oxford, 1920)

Books

• Book I 6 chapters · 1343a1–1345b3
• Book II 2 chapters · 1345b7–1353b27

Greek text & translations

Greek: B. A. van Groningen and A. Wartelle, eds. Aristote. Économique. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1968.
Translation: E. S. Forster (Oxford, 1920).
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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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