Theophrastus Project

These pages are maintained by the Department of Humanities, SFU as part of David Mirhady's and the Department's contribution to Project Theophrastus, an international collaborative undertaking initiated by Professor William W. Fortenbaugh of the Department of Classics at Rutgers University, New Jersey, in 1979.

The first stage of the Project was devoted to a collection - Greek/Latin/Arabic texts, translation, and commentaries - of the fragments and testimonia relating to the life and lost works of Theophrastus (c.371-287 BC), colleague of Aristotle and his successor as head of the school he founded, the Lyceum.

The text and translation volume was published by E.J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands, in 1992. The first volume of commentary on the fragments and testimonia, on biology, appeared in 1995; the series of commentaries is still in progress. In addition, the Project is developing two further areas,

publication of minor works by Theophrastus
publication of the fragments of other members of Aristotle's school

Other information:

conferences

These pages were previously hosted by R.W. Sharples at the Department of Greek and Latin, University College London.