Theophrastus of Eresus. Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought and Influence (2 vols)
Title | Theophrastus of Eresus. Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought and Influence (2 vols) PDF eBook |
Author | William Fortenbaugh |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 1194 |
Release | 2016-08-09 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9004326065 |
These two volumes represent the first fruits of an international project to produce a new collection - text, translation and commentary - of the fragments and testimonia relating to Theophrastus (c. 370-288/5 B.C.), Aristotle's pupil and successor as head of the Lyceum. The need for a new collection was apparent: the standard collection, by Wimmer, is already 120 years old, whereas we now have far better texts of many of the ancient authors in which fragments and testimonia of Theophrastus occur. Whilst classicists have devoted the past hundred years to bringing into the light the work of the major post-Aristotelian schools, the contribution of Theophrastus has remained obscure. The second printing contains corrections to the first. This first stage of the project presents the texts, critical apparatus and English translation of the fragments and testimonia. It contains a long methodological introduction, an index of Theophrastean texts and concordances with other collections (Scheider, Wimmer and the several recent partial editions). The second stage of the project, which Brill will also publish will consist of 9 commentary volumes, planned at present as follows: 1. Life, Writings, various reports (M. Sollenberger, Mt. St. Mary's College) 2. Logic (P.M. Huby, Liverpool University) 3. Physics (R.W. Sharples, University College London) 4. Metaphysics, Theology, Mathematics, Psychology (P.M. Huby, Liverpool University) 5. Human Physiology, Living Creatures, Botany (R.W. Sharples, University of London) 6. Ethics, Religion (W.W. Fortenbaugh, Rutgers University) 7. Politics (J. Mirhady) 8. Rhetoric, Poetics (W.W. Fortenbaugh, Rutgers University) 9. Music, Miscellaneous Items and Index of proper names, subject index, selective index of Greek, Latin and Arabic terms (several authors/editors). Most of the nine commentary volumes will include significant discussion of Arabic texts, with contributions by Dimitri Gutas (Yale University) and Hans Daiber (Free University of Amsterdam). It is expected that the first commentary volume, volume 5, will appear in the course of 1993.
Theophrastus of Eresus
Title | Theophrastus of Eresus PDF eBook |
Author | R. W. Sharples |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Authors, Greek |
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Theophrastus of Eresus, Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought and Influence
Title | Theophrastus of Eresus, Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought and Influence PDF eBook |
Author | Theophrastus |
Publisher | |
Pages | 528 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Authors, Greek |
ISBN |
In the present volume, the focus is on natural philosophy, apart from the study of living things. Topics covered include the principles of scientific enquiry, place, time, motion, the heavens, the sublunary world, meteorology and the study of materials.
Theophrastus of Eresus. Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought and Influence
Title | Theophrastus of Eresus. Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought and Influence PDF eBook |
Author | Pamela Huby |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2006-12-31 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9047410556 |
This volume forms part of the international Theophrastus project started by Brill in 1992 and edited by W.W. Fortenbaugh, P.M. Huby, R.W. Sharples and D. Gutas. Along with volumes containing texts and translations, the commentary volumes provide classicists and philosophers with an up-to-date collection of the material relating to Theophrastus (ca. 370-286 BC), Aristotle’s pupil and successor as head of the Peripatetic school. This is the second volume of Huby's commentary on Theophrastus of Eresus. Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought and Influence. Dimitri Gutas has written on the Arabic passages, including some unique material, and Pamela Huby has covered the rest. Theophrastus largely followed Aristotle’s logical views, but made important changes in modal logic, and dealt with hypothetical and prosleptic syllogisms. He also influenced medieval logic.
Theophrastus of Eresus Commentary Volume 8
Title | Theophrastus of Eresus Commentary Volume 8 PDF eBook |
Author | William Fortenbaugh |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 520 |
Release | 2005-03-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9047415191 |
This volume is a commentary on the rhetorical and poetic texts collected in the second volume of Theophrastus of Eresus: Sources for His Life, Writings, Thought, and Influence. The commentary begins with a discussion of the ancient and medieval sources from which the texts are drawn. Next comes discussion of the titles of Theophrastus' works on rhetoric and poetics. After that each text is discussed individually. In sum, Theophrastus is shown to be an important, though sometimes seriously misunderstood, contributor to the development of Greek rhetorical and poetic theory. The commentary concludes with a bibliography of the modern scholary literature followed by several indices: important Greek and Latin words, titles of works (non-Theophrastean as well as Theophrastean), persons and places, and subjects discussed in earlier sections of the commentary.
Theophrastus of Eresus
Title | Theophrastus of Eresus PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2005 |
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ISBN | 9789004094406 |
Sources for His Life, Writings Thought and Influence
Title | Sources for His Life, Writings Thought and Influence PDF eBook |
Author | Teofrasto |
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Pages | |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Authors, Greek |
ISBN | 9789004113176 |
These volumes form part of the large international Theophrastus Project started by Brill in 1992 and edited by W. W. Fortenbaugh and others. Together with volumes comprising the texts and translations, the commentary volumes provide a new generation of classicists with an up-to-date collection of the fragments and testimonia relating to Theophrastus (c.370-288/5 B.C.), Aristotle's pupil and successor as head of the Lyceum.