Theophrastus of Eresus was Aristotle's pupil and successor as head of the Peripatetic School. He is best known as the author of the amusing Characters and two ground-breaking works in botany, but his writings extend over the entire range of Hellenistic philosophic studies. Volume 5 of Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities focuses on his scientific work. The volume contains new editions of two brief scientific essays-On Fish and Afeteoro/o^y-accompanied by translations and commentary.

Among the contributions are: Peripatetic Dialectic in the De sensibus, Han Baltussen; Empedocles Theory of Vision and Theophrastus' De sensibus, David N. Sedley; Theophrastus on the Intellect, Daniel Devereux; Theophrastus and Aristotle on Animal Intelligence, Eve Browning Cole; Physikai doxai and Problemata physika from Aristotle to Agtius (and Beyond), Jap Mansfield; Xenophanes or Theophrastus? An Aetian Doxographicum on the Sun, David Runia; Place1 in Context: On Theophrastus, Fr. 21 and 22 Wimmer, Keimpe Algra; The Meteorology of Theophrastus in Syriac and Arabic Translation, Hans Daiber; Theophrastus' Meteorology, Aristotle and Posidonius, Ian G. Kidd; The Authorship and Sources of the Peri Semeion Ascribed to Theophrastus, Patrick Cronin; Theophrastus, On Fish Robert W. Sharpies.