Guides: Aristotle Research Guide: Online Translations

Introduction

This page lists transcriptions and translations of Aristotle's works (available online) in four languages. The left column contains transcriptions in Greek and translations in French while the right column contains translations in Latin and English.

Transcriptions - Greek

Perseus Digital Library
Perseus Digital Library contains Greek and English versions of some of Aristotle's works: Athenian Constitution, Economics, Eudemian Ethics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Poetics, Politics, Rhetoric, and Virtues and Vices.
Project Gutenberg - Online Book Catalog
Project Gutenberg (invented in 1971) is an online book catalog which allows browsing by author (alphabetically), title, language, categories, or recently added and searching by author or title. This website is " the first and largest single collection of free electronic books". Project Gutenberg has Aristotle's works in Greek and English.
Bibliotheca Augustana
Bibliotheca Augustana has biographical information and transcriptions of some of Aristotle's works in Greek. The transcriptions include Ἀναλυτικὰ πρότερα, Ἀναλυτικὰ ὕστερα, Περὶ ποιητικῆς, and Εὔδημος ἢ Περὶ ψυχῆς. The editions listed in the Bibliographia are in Latin.

Translations - French

Aristote Oeuvre Complete
Aristote Oeuvre Complete provides French translations of Aristotle's works. This page is part of Philippe Remacle's website, L'antiquité grecque et latine du moyen âge.

Translations - Latin

Boethius translated and wrote commentaries on two of Aristotle's works: Κατηγορίαι (Kategoria) and Περὶ ἑρμηνείας (Peri Hermeneias). William of Moerbeke (French: Guillaume de Moerbeke) also translated Aristotle's works including Τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά (Ta Meta Ta Physika); some of his translations were the first Latin translation of Aristotle's works while other translations were revisions of already existing Latin translations of Aristotle's works. Boethius lived during the 5th and 6th century while William of Moerbeke lived during the 13th century. All of the texts are complete except Τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά.

Boethius' Translation of the Perihermaneias
E.D.Buckner at The Logic Museum provides two translations of Aristotle's Peri Hermeneias (Greek): Boethius's Latin translation of the Greek text and E.M. Edghill's English translation of the Greek text. This work by Aristotle is more commonly known as De Interpretatione (Latin) or On Interpretation (English). E.M. Edghill's English translation (editor: Ross, Oxford University Press, 1928) is based on Bekker's 1831 Greek text.
Aristotle's Categories Translated by Boethius
E.D.Buckner at The Logic Museum provides two translations of Aristotle's Kategoria (Greek): Boethius's Latin translation of the Greek text and E.M. Edghill's English translation of the Greek text. This work by Aristotle is more commonly known as Categoriae (Latin) or Categories (English). The Latin text is from Aristoteles Latinus while E.M. Edghill's English translation (editor: Ross, Oxford University Press, 1928) is based on Bekker's 1831 Greek text.
Moerbeke's Translation of Book 7 of the Metaphysics
E.D.Buckner at The Logic Museum provides two translations of a selection (Book 7) from Aristotle's Τὰ μετὰ τὰ φυσικά Book Zeta (Greek): William Moerbeke's Latin translation of the Greek text and an English translation of the Greek text. This work by Aristotle is more commonly known as Metaphysica (Latin) or Metaphysics (English).
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The Latin text is from Metaphysica, lib. I-XIV. Recensio et Translatio Guillelmi de Moerbeka (editor: G. Vuillemin-Diem, E.J. Brill, 1995) while the English translation is from the series edited by Ross, The Works of Aristotle Translated into English.

Translations - English

Perseus Digital Library
Perseus Digital Library contains Greek and English versions of some of Aristotle's works: Athenian Constitution, Economics, Eudemian Ethics, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Poetics, Politics, Rhetoric, and Virtues and Vices.
Project Gutenberg - Online Book Catalog
Project Gutenberg (invented in 1971) is an online book catalog which allows browsing by author (alphabetically), title, language, categories, or recently added and searching by author or title. This website is " the first and largest single collection of free electronic books". Project Gutenberg has Aristotle's works in Greek and English.
ESP: Electronic Scholarly Publishing
ESP focuses on the electronic publishing of scientific and scholarly materials with an emphasis on the history of science, genetics, computational biology, and genome research. ESP has three of Aristotle's works available in HTML: On the Generation of Animals, On the Pats of Animals, and The History of Animals.
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