ABSTRACT
This chapter reproduces the manuscript left by the chimera, but I have added references to books and manuscripts, plus a few notes. Most of my additions appear as footnotes, but a few occur in the main text in square brackets. The reader will notice that the chimera has wisely disregarded accidental changes of philosophers’ choices of example when they need a composite animal. The chimera takes remarks about, for example, the goat-stag as remarks aimed at itself. As a matter of fact, Aristotle and the Greek Aristotelian commentators prefer the goat-stag (τραγέλαφοζ) and the centaur (ἱπποκένταυροζ). In the Hellenistic period, the centaur, the scylla and the chimera are the standard examples. In Latin medieval texts the chimera (inherited from Manlius Boethius) is vastly more popular than any of the other composite animals.
