Parva Naturalia

The Parva Naturalia (a conventional Latin title first used by Giles of Rome: "short treatises on nature") are a collection of seven works by Aristotle, which discuss natural phenomena involving the body and the soul:

• Sense and Sensibilia (or De Sensu et Sensibilibus)
• On Memory (or De Memoria et Reminiscentia)
• On Sleep (or De Somno et Vigilia)
• On Dreams (or De Insomniis)
• On Divination in Sleep (or De Divinatione per Somnum)
• On Length and Shortness of Life (or De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae)
• On Youth, Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration (or De Juventute et Senectute, De Vita et Morte, De Respiratione)

Editions

All the Parva Naturalia

• Aristote: Petits traités d'histoire naturelle (with French translation and brief notes), ed. René Mugnier, Collection Budé, 1953
• Aristotle: Parva Naturalia (with extensive commentary in English), ed. W. D. Ross, Oxford, 1955 (repr. 2000, ISBN 0198141084)
• Aristotelis Parva Naturalia Graece et Latine (with Latin translation and notes), ed. Paul Siwek, Rome: Desclée, 1963

Multiple treatises

• David Gallop, Aristotle on Sleep and Dreams: A Text and Translation with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary. Petersborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, 1990, ISBN 0-921149-60-3 (On Sleep, On Dreams, and On Divination in Sleep)

External links

• Greek text: Parva Naturalia (Biehl's 1898 Teubner edition); HTML text from HODOI (with concordance) and Mikros apoplous (with Modern Greek translation and notes)
• 1908 English translation by J.I. Beare and G.R.T. Ross (Oxford 1931): archive.org
• 1902 English translation by William Alexander Hammond (1861-1938): Google Books, archive.org, audiobook
• Annotated French translation by Jules Barthélemy-Saint-Hilaire