Sacred Sneezes in Aristotle, Historia animalium I 11 and [Aristotle], Problemata physica XXXIII 7 & 9

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Erga-Logoi Pub Date : 2023-06-19 DOI:10.7358/erga-2023-001-mayr

R. Mayhew

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Abstract

The aim of this essay is to shed light on three related Peripatetic texts that have received little scholarly attention: a passage in Aristotle’s Historia animalium I 11, on the nose, which mentions in passing that «sneezing […] is alone of breaths (πνευμάτων) a sign prophetic and sacred»; and, two chapters in pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata physica XXXIII, which ask and attempt to answer the question: why is sneezing (thought to be) sacred? An important issue distinguishing the latter from the former is the view that the head is the seat of reason.

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《亚里士多德的神圣喷嚏》，《动物历史》第11期和《亚里士多德》，《物理学问题》第33期，第7和第9期

本文的目的是阐明三个相关的、很少受到学术关注的《游学》文本:亚里士多德的《动物史学》I 11中的一段关于鼻子的文章，其中顺便提到“打喷嚏[…]是唯一的呼吸(πνε ν μ των)，是预言和神圣的标志”;在伪亚里士多德的《物理学问题》三十三章中，有两章提出并试图回答这个问题:为什么打喷嚏(被认为是)神圣的?将后者与前者区别开来的一个重要问题是认为头部是理性的所在地。

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Erga-Logoi Arts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory

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