Theophrastus of Eresus, about 371–287 BCE, is the name this site attaches to a Greek from Lesbos who heard Plato in Athens and then Aristotle, and who succeeded Aristotle as second head of the Peripatetic school at the Lyceum for about thirty-five years. Hosts record a short exile in the Macedonian troubles and a return.
Ancient lists give him more than two hundred treatises; most are lost. What this site holds includes Inquiry into Plants and Explanations of Plants, the Characters, and fragments later filed under logical, physical, and other headings, including αἴσθησις.
A book here is Greek under his name. The lost doxographical works survive only as later quotation. He is not Aristotle's autograph, and the botanical books are not a handbook of the whole school.
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