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. This volume forms part o…
No original works by Greek philosopher Theophrastus (370-285 BCE) survive, and his ideas are only preserved in the work of later writers quoting or commenting on them. When the two-volume collection of such fragments was published in 1992, eight volumes of commentary on them wer…
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-d…
Cicero is best known for his political speeches. His Catilinarian orations are regularly studied in third or fourth year Latin; his self-proclaimed role as savior of the Republic is much discussed in courses on Roman history. But, however fascinating such material may be, there …
