1st Edition
Theophrastus His Psychological, Doxographical, and Scientific Writings
422 Pages
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Routledge
422 Pages
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Routledge
350 Pages
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Routledge
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Theophrastus of Eresus was Aristotle's pupil and successor as head of the Peripatetic School. He is best known as the author of the amusing Characters and two ground-breaking works in botany, but his writings extend over the entire range of Hellenistic philosophic studies. Volume 5 of Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities focuses on his scientific work. The volume contains new... Read more
1: Peripatetic Dialectic in the De sensibus; 2: Empedocles’ Theory of Vision and Theophrastus’ De sensibus; 3: Theophrastus on the Intellect; 4: Theophrastus and Aristotle on Animal Intelligence; 5: Physikai doxai and Probl?mata physika from Aristotle to Aëtius (and Beyond); 6: Xenophanes or Theophrastus? An Aëtian Doxographicum on the Sun; 7: ‘Place’ in Context On Theophrastus Fr. 21 and 22 Wimmer; 8: The Meteorology of Theophrastus in Syriac and Arabic Translation; 9: Theophrastus’ Meteorology, Aristotle and Posidonius; 10: The Authorship and Sources of the Peri s?mei?n Ascribed to Theophrastus; 11: 11: Theophrastus: On Fish
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William W. Fortenbaugh, Dimitri Gutas
