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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 May 2023
      08 June 2023
      ISBN:
      9781139057721
      9781107015159
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139057721
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 376 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Literature, History, Ancient Philosophy, History of Medicine
      Collection:
      Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
      Series:
      Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries (61)
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    Subjects:
    Classical Studies, Classical Literature, History, Ancient Philosophy, History of Medicine
    Collection:
    Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
    Series:
    Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries (61)
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    This is the first modern edition of Book X of the Historia Animalium. It argues that the first five chapters are a summary, from the hand of Aristotle, of a medical treatise by a physician practicing in the fourth-century BCE. This gives short shrift to Hippocratic staples such as trapped menses and the wandering womb, and describes a woman's climax during sex in terms that can be easily mapped onto modern accounts. In summarizing the treatise and examining its claims in the last two chapters, Aristotle follows the method described in the Topics for a philosopher embarking on a new field of study. Here we see Aristotle's ruminations over the conundrum of a woman's contribution to conception at an early stage in the development of his theory of reproduction. Far from being an insignificant pseudepigraphon, this is a central text for understanding the development of ancient gynaecology and Aristotelian methodology.

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    ‘Her theory is brilliant, and may even be correct.’

    David D. Leitao Source: Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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