Theophrastus (eBook)

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 editions of two brief scientific essays-On Fish and Afeteoro/o^y-accompanied by translations and commentary.Among the contributions are: "e;Peripatetic Dialectic in the De sensibus,"e; Han Baltussen; "e;Empedocles"e; Theory of Vision and Theophrastus' De sensibus,"e; David N. Sedley; "e;Theophrastus on the Intellect,"e; Daniel Devereux; "e;Theophrastus and Aristotle on Animal Intelligence,"e; Eve Browning Cole; "e;Physikai doxai and Problemata physika from Aristotle to Agtius (and Beyond),"e; Jap Mansfield; "e;Xenophanes or Theophrastus? An Aetian Doxographicum on the Sun,"e; David Runia; "e;Place1 in Context: On Theophrastus, Fr. 21 and 22 Wimmer,"e; Keimpe Algra; "e;The Meteorology of Theophrastus in Syriac and Arabic Translation,"e; Hans Daiber; "e;Theophrastus' Meteorology, Aristotle and Posidonius,"e; Ian G. Kidd; "e;The Authorship and Sources of the Peri Semeion Ascribed to Theophrastus,"e; Patrick Cronin; "e;Theophrastus, On Fish"e; Robert W. Sharpies.