Commenting on recently collected sources for Theophrastus' ethical views, this work relates Theophrastean doctrine to that of Aristotle and the rival Stoics. Th

This volume takes as its focus an oft-neglected work of ancient philosophy: Aristotle's lost Homeric Problems. The evidence for this lost work consists mostly o

This volume comments on the sources for understanding Theophrastus' contributions to rhetorical and poetic theory. The ancient sources themselves, the known tit

This is the first extended study in English of Theophrastus' Characters, one of the briefest but also most influential works to survive from classical antiquity

This book explores the various views on language and its relation to philosophy in the Platonic tradition by examening the reception of Plato's Cratylus in anti