Peripatetic school
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The Peripatetic school was a philosophical school founded in 335 BC by Aristotle in the Lyceum in ancient Athens. It was an informal institution whose members conducted philosophical and scientific in
Aristotle and his disciples – Alexander, Demetrius, Theophrastus, and Strato – in an 1888 fresco in the portico of the National University of Athens
Aristotle's School, a painting from the 1880s by Gustav Adolph Spangenberg
Theophrastus
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Theophrastus was an ancient Greek philosopher and naturalist. A native of Eresos in Lesbos, he was Aristotle's close colleague and successor as head of the Lyceum, the Peripatetic school of philosophy
Peripatetic school
…the school also came to be referred to simply as the Lyceum. Some modern scholars argue that the school did not become formally institutionalized until Theophrastus took it over, at which time there was private property associated with the school. Originally at least, the Peripatetic gatherings were probably conducted…
Statue of Theophrastus, Palermo Botanical Garden
Aristotle, Theophrastus, and Strato of Lampsacus. Part of a fresco in the portico of the University of Athens painted by Carl Rahl, c. 1888.
Frontispiece to the illustrated 1644 edition of the Enquiry into Plants (Historia Plantarum)
Theophrastus, depicted as a medieval scholar in the Nuremberg Chronicle