(1.1–27), generation (1.27–97), and sensational peculiarities of men (1.98–113) and animals
(1.114–154). Book 2, altered in the sole surviving MS, presents 26 monographic files on
mammals (beginning with fissipeds: man, elephant, lion.. .) systematically arranged and
including the following headings: complete anatomy, mating, gestation, reproduction, num-
ber of offspring, lifestyle, ethology, longevity (1.155, 2.1). This new arrangement of zoo-
logical knowledge, separating clearly the (general) theory and the (singular) concrete
description leads to a significant distortion of the meaning and aim of Aristotelian inquiry.
This kind of naturalist guide, with a general introduction and systematic monographic files,
was apparently the standard format of “Aristotelian” zoology transmitted through ancient
and Byzantine times. Scholars have erroneously considered this Epitome the enigmatic
Aristotelian Zoika, but the complex composition and intertwined citations suggest rather the
result of a well-developed early Peripatetic tradition of editing, reorganizing and rewrit-
ing the broad Aristotelian zoological corpus and information disseminated (see Epit. 2.1) by
his inquiry. Of a lexicographical treatise entitled On the names [of animals] according to their age,
182 brief fragments survive.
Ed.: S.P. Lambros, Excerptorum Constantini De Natura Animalium Libri Duo: Aristophanis Historiae Animalium
Epitome, Supplementum Aristotelicum, 1.1 (1885); Arnaud Zucker, Recueil zoologique de Constantin
(CUF, forthcoming).
RE 2.1 (1895) 994–1005 (#14), L. Cohn; O. Hellmann, “Peripatetic biology and the Epitome of
Aristophanes of Byzantium,” Aristo of Ceos, RUSCH XIII (2006) 329–359.
Arnaud Zucker
Aristophane ̄s of Mallos in Kilikia (325 – 90 BCE)
Agronomist whose writings may have treated cereals, livestock, poultry, viticulture, and
arboriculture (cf. P, 1.ind.8, 10, 14–15, 17–18); C D excerpted from his
work (V, RR 1.1.8–10, cf. C, 1.1.7). Pliny gives Mile ̄tos as Aristophane ̄s’
homeland, but Varro, somewhat closer to the source, has it as Mallos.
RE 2.1 (1895) 1005 (#15), M. Wellmann.
Philip Thibodeau
Aristophilos of Plataia (350 – 280 BCE)
Pharmacologist, used his knowledge of antaphrodisiac medicines to punish and reform his
slaves (T HP 9.18.4).
RE 2.1 (1895) 1005, M. Wellmann.
GLIM
Aristotele ̄s of Mutile ̄ne ̄ (180 – 205 CE)
Peripatetic teacher of A A, who promulgated a Stoic theory
of mind (In de Anima: CAG S.2.2 [1887] 110) and contributed to the debate on circular
motion (S In de Caelo: CAG 7 [1894] 153–154). G, Peri Etho ̄n (2.11– 12
MMH), gives the ethnic and records how he died from lack of proper care.
P. Moraux, “Aristoteles, der Lehrer Alexanders von Aphrodisias,” AGP 49 (1967) 169–182.
PTK
ARISTOTELE ̄S OF MUTILE ̄NE ̄