The Loeb Classical Library: De Causis Plantarum, Volume I : Books 1–2

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The Loeb Classical Library: De Causis Plantarum, Volume I : Books 1–2Theophrastus of Eresus in Lesbos, born about 370 BC, is the author of the most important botanical works that have survived from classical antiquity. He was in turn student, collaborator, and successor of Aristotle. Like his predecessor he was interested in all aspects of human knowledge and experience, especially natural science. His writings on plants form a counterpart to Aristotles zoological works. In the Enquiry into Plants Theophrastus

This 'infamy' has inspired the work of historians and novelists from Roman times to the present

Όλα ήρθαν φυσιολογικά στο δρόμο μου ή σ' εμένα φάνηκε έτσι

he recounts a lecture he gives to the people of Olbia

love songs

and to Classics within modern culture-from Jefferson and Byron to Asterix and Ben-Hur

and discusses themes

and celebrating the pleasures of wine

Ellie finds postcards from Greece in her mailbox that

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choral singing

The book reproduces Schuckburgh's Greek text

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