This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the Aristotelian study of nature and especially of animals. This is the first volu...Daugiau...
This is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), attributed to Aristotle but not in fact by him....Daugiau...
This series in the field of classics grew out of Project Theophrastus, an international undertaking whose goal is to collect, edit, and comment on the fragments of Theophrastus, Greek philosopher, Aristotles pupil and second head of the Peripatet...Daugiau...
This book showcases a figure whose life and work bridge Classical and Hellenistic Greece. It comprises Tiziano Dorandis comprehensive new edition of the Clearchus fragments, accompanied by a richly annotated English translation from Stephen White,...Daugiau...
This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the Aristotelian study of nature and especially of animals. The chapters in this volume explore the Mirabi...Daugiau...
This is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), attributed to Aristotle but not in fact by him. The central section of the...Daugiau...
Showcases a figure whose life and work bridge Classical and Hellenistic Greece. It comprises Tiziano Dorandis comprehensive new edition of the Clearchus fragments, accompanied by a richly annotated English translation from Stephen White, as well a...Daugiau...
Ian Kidd, of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, has long been known as a world-class scholar of ancient philosophy and of Posidonius, in particular. Through his long struggle with the fragments of Posidonius, Kidd has done more than any othe...Daugiau...
As a young man he studied philosophy in Greece; throughout his life he maintained a keen interest in intellectual history; and during periods of political inactivity - especially in his last years as the Republic collapsed - he wrote treatises that t...Daugiau...
This volume includes new scholarship, with translation of source texts for the writings, thought, and influence of Phaenias (whose name also appears as Phaniasand Phainias), as well as essays that take up various areas of his life and work in...Daugiau...
This volume features a unique epitome of Aristotelian practical philosophy. It is often attributed to Arius Didymus who composed a survey of Peripatetic on three areas: ethics, household management, and politics. The quality of the epitome, which...Daugiau...
Theophrastus was Aristotles pupil and second head of the Peripatetic School. Apart from two botanical works, a collection of character sketches, and several scientific opuscula, his works survive only through quotations and reports in secondary sou...Daugiau...
Theophrastus of Eresus was Aristotles 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 Hellen...Daugiau...
Dicaearchus of Messana (fl. c. 320 b.c.) was a peripatetic philosopher. Like Theophrastus of Eresus, he was a pupil of Aristotle. Dicaearchuss life is not well documented. There is no biography by Diogenes Laertius, and what the Suda offers is me...Daugiau...
Heraclides of Pontus hailed from the shores of the Black Sea. He studied with Aristotle in Platos Academy, and became a respected member of that school. During Platos third trip to Sicily, Heraclides served as head of the Academy and was almost...Daugiau...
Demetrius of Phalerum (c. 355-280BCE) of Phalerum was a philosopher-statesman. He studied in the Peripatos under Theophrastus and subsequently used his political influence to help his teacher acquire property for the Peripatetic school. As oversee...Daugiau...
Eudemus of Rhodes was a pupil of Aristotle in the second half of the fourth century BCE. When Aristotle died, having chosen Theophrastus as his successor, Eudemus returned to Rhodes where it appears he founded his own school. His contributions to...Daugiau...
Volume 12 in the RUSCH series continues work already begun on the School of Aristotle. It focuses on two Peripatetic philosophers who lived in the third century BCE, when Stoicism and Epicureanism flourished. Lyco of Troas was the third head of th...Daugiau...
Heraclides of Pontus hailed from the shores of the Black Sea. He studied with Aristotle in Platos Academy, and became a respected member of that school. During Platos third trip to Sicily, Heraclides served as head of the Academy and was almost...Daugiau...
Aristoxenus of Tarentum was reported to have been bitterly disappointed when Theophrastus was chosen instead of him to succeed Aristotle as the head of the Peripatetic School. He had a truly phenomenal output of some 453 volumes, most of which sur...Daugiau...
