biography
pronunciation:
[theeohfrastus]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.372–286 BC)
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| biography:
| Greek philosopher, born in Eresus, Lesbos, Greece. At Athens he studied under Aristotle, becoming his close friend, and head of the Peripatetic school after his death. He was responsible for preserving many of Aristotle's works, along with many fragments of the Presocratics. Among his own works which have survived are two books on plants, and Charactēres, describing 30 moral types based on studies by Aristotle. |
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