{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0086.tlg013.local002","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg013.local002/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg013.local002","title":"De generatione et corruptione","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Aristotle","authorityName":"ARISTOTELES Phil. et CORPUS AR-","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0086-aristoteles-phil-et-corpus-ar/","editors":["Carl Prantl"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Harvard College Library","sourceTitle":"Aristoteles De coelo et De generatione et corruptione","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1881","volume":null,"series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Harvard College Library","sponsors":["Harvard College Library"],"funders":["Harvard Library Arcadia Fund"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Corrected and encoded the text","names":[]},{"role":"Editor-in-Chief, Perseus Digital Library","names":[]},{"role":"Project Manager (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Project Assistant (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Lead Developer (University of Leipzig)","names":[]},{"role":"Technical Advisor","names":[]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/stream/decoeloetdegene00prangoog#page/n109/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aristotle. De generatione et corruptione. ed. Carl Prantl. Aristoteles De coelo et De generatione et corruptione, Leipzig, Teubner, 1881. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0086.tlg013.local002","excerpt":"Περὶ δὲ γενέσεως καὶ φθορᾶς τῶν φύσει γινομένων καὶ 314 a φθειρομένων, ὁμοίως κατὰ πάντων, τάς τε αἰτίας διαιρετέον καὶ τοὺς λόγους αὐτῶν, ἔτι δὲ περὶ αὐξήσεως καὶ ἀλλοιώσεως, τί ἑκάτερον, καὶ πότερον τὴν αὐτὴν ὑποληπτέον φύσιν εἶναι ἀλλοιώσεως καὶ γενέσεως, ἢ χωρίς, ὥσπερ διώρισται καὶ τοῖς ὀνόμασιν. τῶν μὲν οὖν ἀρχαίων οἱ μὲν τὴν καλουμένην ἁπλῆν γένεσιν ἀλλοίωσιν εἶναι φασιν, οἱ δʼ ἕτεροι ἀλλοίωσιν καὶ γένεσιν. ὅσοι μὲν γὰρ ἕν τι τὸ πᾶν λέγουσιν εἶναι καὶ πάντα ἐξ ἑνὸς γεννῶσιν, τούτοις μὲν ἀνάγκη τὴν γένεσιν ἀλλοίωσιν φάναι καὶ τὸ κυρίως γιγνόμενον ἀλλοιοῦσθαι· ὅσοι δὲ πλείω τὴν ὕλην ἑνὸς τιθέασιν, οἷον Ἐμπεδοκλῆς καὶ Ἀναξαγόρας καὶ Λεύκιππος, τούτοις δὲ ἕτερον. καίτοι Ἀναξαγόρας γε τὴν οἰκείαν φωνὴν ἠγνόησεν· λέγει γοῦν ὡς τὸ γίγνεσθαι καὶ ἀπόλλυσθαι ταὐτὸν καθέστηκε τῷ ἀλλοιοῦσθαι. πολλά δὲ λέγει τὰ στοιχεῖα, καθάπερ καὶ ἕτεροι. Ἐμπεδοκλῆς μὲν γὰρ τὰ μὲν σωματικὰ τέτταρα, τὰ δὲ…","divisions":[{"label":"ΠΕΡΙ ΙΕΝΕΣΕΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΦΘΟΡΑΣ Α.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg013.local002/#tlg0086-tlg013-local002-1"},{"label":"B.","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg013.local002/#tlg0086-tlg013-local002-2"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086.tlg013.local002/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0086.tlg013.local002.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0086/tlg013/local002.json.gz"}}