On Marvellous Things Heard
Nikolaos Sekoundinos at Florence in 1441. This page contains extracts from The Situations and Names of Winds
and On Marvellous Things Heard.On Marvellous Things Heard (Greek: Περὶ θαυμασίων ἀκουσμάτων; Latin: De mirabilibus auscultationibus), often called Mirabilia,[1] is a collection of thematically arranged anecdotes formerly attributed to Aristotle. The material included in the collection mainly deals with the natural world (e.g., plants, animals, minerals, weather, geography).[2] The work consists of 178 chapters and is an example of the paradoxography genre of literature.[3]
According to the revised Oxford translation of The Complete Works of Aristotle this treatise's "spuriousness has never been seriously contested".Corpus Aristotelicum in 1531.[1]
On Marvellous Things Heard was translated into Latin three times during the
Natale Conti).[7]
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References
- ISBN 0-691-01651-8
- Schorn, Stefan; Mayhew, Robert (eds.) (2024) Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia. Routledge.
- Giacomelli, Ciro (ed.) (2021). Ps.-Aristotele, ›De mirabilibus auscultationibus‹: Indagini sulla storia della tradizione e ricezione del testo. De Gruyter,
- Thomas, Rosalind (2002). Herodotus in context: ethnography, science and the art of persuasion. ISBN 0-521-01241-4
- Zucker, Arnaud; Mayhew, Robert; Hellmann, Oliver (eds.) (2024) The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science. Routledge.
External links
- Greek text
- English translation
Opuscula public domain audiobook at LibriVox
