W.W. Fortenbaugh - Theophrastus: His Psychological, Doxographical, and Scientific Writings

On Stoic and Peripatetic Ethics: The Work of Arius Didymus, volume I

Theophrastus of Eresus: On His Life and Work, volume II

Theophrastean Studies: On Natural Science, Physics and Metaphysics, Ethics, Religion, and Rhetoric, volume III

Ciceros Knowledge of the Peripatos, volume IV

Theophrastus: His Psychological, Doxographical, and Scientific Writings, volume V

His Psychological, Doxographical, and Scientific Writings

Edited, by

William W. Fortenbaugh

and

Dimitri Gutas

First published 1992 by Transaction Publishers

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Library of Congress Catalog Number: 91-27281
ISSN: 0732-9814

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Theophrastus: his psychological, doxographical, and scientific writings / edited by

William W. Fortenbaugh and Dimitri Gutas.

p. cm. (Rutgers University studies in classical humanities ; v. 5)

Includes index.

ISBN 0-88738-404-8

1. TheophrastusKnowledgeScience. 2. TheophrastusKnowledge

Psychology. I. Fortenbaugh, William W. II. Gutas, Dimitri.

III. Series.

Q143.T46T44 1991

500dc20

91-27281
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ISBN 13: 978-0-88738-404-2 (hbk)

Han Baltussen

David N. Sedley

Daniel Devereux

Eve Browning Cole

Jaap Mansfeld

David Runia

Keimpe Algra

Hans Daiber

Ian G. Kidd

Patrick Cronin

Robert W. Sharpies

The town of Eresos lies on the southern shore of the western leg of the lambda that is Lesbos. It is the birthplace of the Peripatetic philosopher Theophrastus and therefore an obvious place for Project Theophrastus to hold one of its biennial conferences. On the first three days of August 1989 the obvious became reality; a conference sponsored by the Project took place at Eresos.

The modern village has a modest population of about six hundred inhabitants, with several hundred more sons and daughters of Eresos scattered throughout the world. There is, however, nothing modest about the self-consciousness of the Eresians, both those on the island and the emigrants abroad. History weighs robustly on them, for they know that their town is the birthplace of both Sappho and Theophrastus. A lesser folk might have refused the request to host a Project conference. Not so the modern Eresians, who enthusiastically took up the challenge of organizing a conference on their most famous son.

Dr. George Andreou, , chaired an organizing committee that consisted of Ignatios Papazoglou, Sotiris Kardaras, Loukas Kovras, George Loukidis, Ilias Sahlos, Antonis Tsalavoutis, Miltiadis Lambrinidis and Mary Kazazi. The committee, ably aided by other Eresians, raised the necessary funds, looked after every imaginable detail and put together a conference, complete with excursions, receptions, and commemorative medallions crafted by Haralambos Repanellis. Even in providing a meeting place the Eresians achieved perfection. They selected a theater hall immediately next door to a magnificent neo-classical buildingthe elementary school which is appropriately called the . The hall itself was attractively decorated, not the least by a portrait of Theophrastus that had been painted for the occasion by Ioakim Lambrinidis.

Availing themselves of the opportunity, the Eresians honored not only the conference participants but themselves as well. Through the generosity of Viktoria and Sokratis Sahlos, a bust of Theophrastus was sculpted by the artist Th. Papagiannis, and was unveiled in the main square of Skala Eresou after a fitting ceremony on the opening day of the conference. We like to think that Theophrastus, who obviously was never absent from the hearts and minds of the Eresians, has now physically returned home. As a small token of our appreciation we dedicate this volume .

The papers contained in this volume were in their first draft all written for the conference in Eresos. With one exception they were read there and commented on by the conference participants. As actually printed the papers have undergone various degrees of revision, often taking advantage of criticisms and suggestions made during informal discussion in Eresos. Two of the papers are unusual in that they contain editions together with translation and commentary of Theophrastean treatises. With these editions/translations as with all the papers collected in the volume, we have tried to be helpful editors, not imposing our own views but encouraging clarity and seeking a measure of uniformity in format.

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Keimpe ALGRA, Faculteit der Wijsbegeerte, Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 2, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands

Han BALTUSSEN, Faculteit der Wijsbegeerte, Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 2, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands

Eve Browning COLE, Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota 55812-2496, USA

Patrick CRONIN, Department of Ancient Classics, University College, Cork, Ireland

Hans DAIBER, Faculteit der Letteren, Vrije Universiteit, 1007 MC Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Daniel DEVEREUX, Department of Philosophy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901, USA

Ian G. KIDD, Department of Greek, University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland KY16 9AL, United Kingdom

Jaap MANSFELD, Faculteit der Wijsbegeerte, Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 2, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands