Theophrastus

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