The works of Aristotle, sometimes referred to by modern scholars with the Latin phrase ''Corpus Aristotelicum'', is the collection of

Aristotle Aristotle (; 384–322 BC) was an Ancient Greek philosophy, Ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings cover a broad range of subjects spanning the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, a ...

's works that have survived from antiquity. According to a distinction that originates with Aristotle himself, his writings are divisible into two groups: the "

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Surviving fragments of the many lost works of Aristotle were included in the fifth volume of Bekker's edition, edited by Valentin Rose. These are not cited by Bekker numbers, however, but according to fragment numbers. Rose's first edition of the fragments of Aristotle was ''Aristoteles Pseudepigraphus'' (1863). As the title suggests, Rose considered these all to be spurious. The numeration of the fragments in a revised edition by Rose, published in the

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series,
Aristotelis qui ferebantur librorum fragmenta
', Leipzig, 1886, is still commonly used (indicated by ''R³''), although there is a more current edition with a different numeration by Olof Gigon (published in 1987 as a new vol. 3 in

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's reprint of the Bekker edition), and a new de Gruyter edition by Eckart Schütrumpf is in preparation. For a selection of the fragments in English translation, see W. D. Ross, ''Select Fragments''
Oxford 1952
, and

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(ed.), ''The Complete Works of Aristotle: The Revised Oxford Translation'', vol. 2, Princeton 1984, pp. 2384–2465. A new translation exists of the fragments of Aristotle's '' Protrepticus'', by Hutchinson and Johnson (2015). The works surviving only in fragments include the dialogues ''On Philosophy'' (or ''On the Good''), ''Eudemus'' (or ''On the Soul''), ''On Justice'', and ''On Good Birth''. The possibly spurious work, '' On Ideas'' survives in quotations by

Alexander of Aphrodisias Alexander of Aphrodisias (; AD) was a Peripatetic school, Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek Commentaries on Aristotle, commentators on the writings of Aristotle. He was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria and liv ...

in his commentary on Aristotle's ''Metaphysics''. For the dialogues, see also the editions of Richard Rudolf Walzer, ''Aristotelis Dialogorum fragmenta, in usum scholarum'' (Florence 1934), and Renato Laurenti, ''Aristotele: I frammenti dei dialoghi'' (2 vols.), Naples: Luigi Loffredo, 1987. Additionally, the '' Constitution of the Athenians'' (Greek, ''Athenaiōn Politeia''; Latin, ''Atheniensium Respublica'') was not included in Bekker's edition because it was first discovered in 1879.Peter John Rhodes. ''A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia'' (Oxford University Press), 1981, 1993: introduction, pp. 2–5.

Printed editions

Aristotle's works have been published in many printed editions, either as complete editions of all surviving writings or as partial collections. English complete editions include: * W. D. Ross translation, 12 vols. (Oxford University Press, 1955) * Jonathan Barnes translation, 2 vols., 1984

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External links

*
The Ancient Catalogues of Aristotle's Writings. A Survey of Current Research

with an annotated bibliography * Bekker's Prussian Academy of Sciences edition of the complete works of Aristotle at Archive.org *: * Lazaris, S. "L'image paradigmatique: des 'Schémas anatomiques' d'Aristote au 'De materia medica' de Dioscoride", Pallas, 93 (2013), p. 131-16
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* Oxford Translation of ''The Works of Aristotle'' at Archive.org *: {{Authority control 4th-century BC books