Author:Theophrastus

Theophrastus of Eresus
(c. 371 BCE – 287 BCE)

Theophrastus of Eresus

Works

• "On the History of Physics" (Περὶ Φυσικῶν Ἱστοριῶν, Perì Physikṓn Historiṓn)
  • Theophrastus of Eresus on Winds and on Weather Signs, translated by J. Wood and G.J. Simons (1894)
• On the History of Plants (Περὶ Φυτῶν Ἱστορία, Perì Phytṓn Historía; Historia Plantarum)
  • Enquiry into Plants, translated by A. Hort (1916)
• On the Senses (Περὶ Αἰσθήσεων, Perì Aisthḗseōn)
  • "On Sense Perception", from Theophrastus and the Greek Physiological Psychology before Aristotle, edited and translated by G.M. Stratton (1917)
• The Characters (Ἠθικοὶ χαρακτῆρες, Ēthikoi Charaktēres)
  • translated by J. Healey (1606)
  • translated by La Bruyère and Anonymous (1699) IA
  • translated by Eustace Budgell (1713) IA
  • translated by H. Gally (1725)
  • translated by W. Rayner (1797)
  • translated by Francis Howell (1824) IA
  • translated by R. C. Jebb (1870) IA, rev. Sandys (1909) IA
  • The Characters of Theophrastus, translated by Charles E. Bennett and William A. Hammond (1902) IA
  • translated by R. Thomson Clark (1909) (HathiTrust)
  • The Characters of Theophrastus, edited and translated by J.M. Edmonds (1929)
• On Stones (Περì λíθων, Peri Lithōn; De lapidibus)
  • Theophrastus's History of Stones, translated by John Hill (1774) (transcription project)

Works about Theophrastus

• “Theophrastus”, in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1870
• "Theophrastus," in Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, (ed.) by John Francis Waller and John Eadie, Glasgow: W. Mackenzie (1876)
• "Theophrastus," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (v. 23) (1888)
• "Theophrastus," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Theophrastus" in Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925)