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 (Susemihl (Teubner, 1887)) 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: F. Susemihl, ed. Aristotelis quae feruntur Oeconomica. Leipzig: Teubner, 1887.
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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