Why does everything spread its smell more widely when it is in motion? Pseudo-Aristotelian Problems 12.5 and 13.12 provide the same answer to this question, but from opposite perspectives: section 12 of the Problems deals with good smells, Περὶ τὰ εὐώδη, section 13 deals with bad smells, Περὶ τὰ δυσώδη, but the explanation of this phenomenon identified by the author is the same. The text of the two Pseudo-Aristotelian Problems will be analyzed and some literary evidence in which this perception is used for poetic purposes will be commented on.
Pseudo-Aristotele, Problemi 12.5 e 13.12: «Perché ogni cosa quando è in movimento diffonde di più il suo odore?»
Francesca Biondi
2026-01-01
Abstract
Why does everything spread its smell more widely when it is in motion? Pseudo-Aristotelian Problems 12.5 and 13.12 provide the same answer to this question, but from opposite perspectives: section 12 of the Problems deals with good smells, Περὶ τὰ εὐώδη, section 13 deals with bad smells, Περὶ τὰ δυσώδη, but the explanation of this phenomenon identified by the author is the same. The text of the two Pseudo-Aristotelian Problems will be analyzed and some literary evidence in which this perception is used for poetic purposes will be commented on.File in questo prodotto:
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