Aristotle. on Youth and Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1-6: With Translation, Introduction and Interpretation Korobili Giouli

This book is devoted to the last part of Aristotle's collection of short treatises known today as the Parva Naturalia, i.e. In the three main sections of the book, the author offers a translation, a commentary and a thorough analysis of this work. the treatise On Youth and Old Age, on Life and Death, on Respiration.

After an Introduction to the nature of the work and its significance for the history of natural philosophy and science, a new English translation follows, along with a detailed commentary of Chapters 1-6, which combines philosophical discussion with philological observations.The book includes four interpretive essays, which tackle problems related to the whole treatise on a more philosophical The author argues in favour of the unity of the work and contextualises its ideas within Aristotle's corpus and the medical tradition of his time.