Aristotle, De motu animalium: Text and Translation

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Oliver Primavesi studied Classics in Heidelberg and Oxford. From 1994 to 2000 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Frankfurt. In 2000 he assumed the Chair of Greek (I) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. In 2007 he received the Leibniz-Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. His main field of research is Textual work on ancient philosophy; he has published widely on Empedocles and on Aristotle (Topics Metaphysics). Christof Rapp studied Philosophy Ancient Greek and Logic. From 1993 to 2000 he was Assistant Professor at the University of Tübingen. From 2001 to 2009 he held the Chair for Ancient and Contemporary Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin. In 2009 he assumed the Chair for Ancient Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich. He has also held visiting positions in Berkeley (2000) Oxford (2008) and Paris (2014). His main field of research is ancient philosophy; he has broadly published on Aristotle especially on Aristotle's rhetoric dialectic metaphysics and ethics. From 2008 to 2015 he was co-editor of Phronesis. A Journal for Ancient Philosophy. Benjamin Morison obtained his BA in Literae Humaniores at Balliol College Oxford followed by the BPhil and DPhil under the supervision of Michael Frede. After a stint as Jonathan Barnes' assistant at the University of Geneva he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Corpus Christi College Oxford (1997-2000) and then Michael Cohen Fellow in Philosophy at Exeter College Oxford (2001-2009). After that he moved to the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University where he was Director of the Program in Classical Philosophy (2014-2022) and then Chair (2022-).