Presentation Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Part 1: From the Study of the Soul to the Study of Perishable Life in Aristotle and Theophrastus 1 Life and Soul in Aristotle's De Anima Sean Kelsey 2 The Soul Itself in Aristotle's Science of Living Things Klaus Corcilius 3 The Peripatetic Study of Perishable Life: Prospects and Limits Andrea Falcon 4 The Minimal Requisites of Life in Aristotle and Theophrastus Luciana Repici Part 2: Explaining Perishable Living Things 5 Perittôma vs. Suntêgma: Was Aristotle Unfair in Equating Pangenesis with the "Seed as Suntêgma" Theory? Claire Louguet 6 How Does a Living Animal Come to Be from Semen? The Puzzles of Aristotle's Generation of Animals II 1-3 Sophia M. Connell 7 All around the Body: Organism and Surrounding Environment in Aristotle Pierre-Marie Morel 8 Living and Well-Living in Aristotle's Zoology Andrea Libero Carbone 9 Simple Solutions to Complex Problems: Spontaneous Generation in [Aristotle], Problemata physica X Robert Mayhew 10 Aristotle, Generation of Animals III 11: in Search of a Place for the Fourth Kind of Living Being David Lefebvre Part 3: Life beyond Perishable Lives: Aristotle on the Unity of Life 11 Perishable and Imperishable Lives: Aristotle's Analogy with the Heavenly Element in GA II 3.736b29-737a5 Diana Quarantotto 12 "We Think of the Stars as Mere Bodies": Aristotle's Epistemological Confrontation with the Academy on Heavenly Bodies Mai-Lan Boureau 13 The Life of Aristotle's Prime Mover: Metaphysics Λ 7.1072b26-30 Fabienne Baghdassarian Coda: Aristotle's Biology and Modern Biology 14 Can Aristotle Be Considered a Biologist? Pierre Pellegrin Index nominum Index locorum.