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THE new volume of the Oxford Aristotle will probably appeal to a wider range of readers than any of the others, because it deals with statecraft, theories of government, economics, and constitutions. The “Politics ”is no doubt the best known of Aristotle's works outside the body of students who have had to read the treatises for university courses. This is in large part due to the splendid translation made by Jowett in 1885. It is this translation which is reprinted in the present volume, revised and brought up to date by Mr. W. D. Ross, the editor of the series. With it is included Mr. E. S. Forster's translation of “Œconomica,”an Aristotelian work which is not by Aristotle, but attributed by the translator to a disciple who lived earlier than the second century B.C. The third work in the volume is the treatise on the constitution of Athens, discovered in a papyrus in 1891. The translation is that originally made by Sir Frederic G. Kenyon, but now revised by him and in part reconstructed from fragments since discovered.
The Works of Aristotle.
Translated into English under the editorship of W. D. Ross Politica B. Jowett Oeconomica E. S. Forster Atheniensium Respublica Sir Frederic G. Kenyon. (Unpaged.) (Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1921.) 15s. net.
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C., H. The Works of Aristotle . Nature 108, 463 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108463a0
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