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Works: 305
Authors: 94
Passages: 89,767

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Corpus works: 259
Private works: 46
Private records: 56
Private excerpts: 20,006
Text representations: 223,819
Editions and translations: 849
Languages: 17
Works in French and English: 259
Multilingual works: 259
Tracked concepts: 9
Estimated sentences: 1,456,557
Words: 27,541,029

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Eudemian EthicsAristotle

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Eudemian Ethics

Eudemian Ethics proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; internal chronology disputed
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 41 passages · 39,333 words

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MetaphysicsAristotle

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Metaphysics

Metaphysics proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; transmitted as a layered collection
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 142 passages · 109,138 words

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Nicomachean EthicsAristotle

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Nicomachean Ethics

Nicomachean Ethics proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; internal chronology disputed
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 116 passages · 89,657 words

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PoeticsAristotle

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Poetics

Poetics proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; internal chronology disputed
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 26 passages · 13,689 words

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PoliticsAristotle

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Politics

Politics proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

What you will learn

Composition: work attested c. 335-323 BCE; earlier layers possible
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 189 passages · 98,973 words

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RhetoricAristotle

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Rhetoric

Rhetoric proceeds through distinctions, objections, and causal inquiry. The surviving text has the density of a school treatise, not a transcribed conversation.

What you will learn

Composition: 4th century BCE; early core and later revisions disputed
Editions / translations: Dates to be documented
Languages: Ancient Greek · English · French
Extent: 882 passages · 64,263 words