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Theophrastus

Greek philosopher (c.371-c.287 BC)

6 dated entries naming Theophrastus, drawn from 6 separate years between 371 BCE and 285 BCE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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4th century BC

  • 371 BCETheophrastus, Greek philosophersource
  • 370 BCETheophrastus, Greek philosopher, a native of Eressos in Lesbos, the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school (d. c. 285 BC) Chanakyasource
  • 323 BCETheophrastus, who has been studying in Athens under Aristotle, becomes the head of the Lyceum, the academy in Athens founded by Aristotle, when Aristotle is forced to leave Athens.source
  • 320 BCETheophrastus begins the systematic study of botany.source

3rd century BC

  • 287 BCETheophrastus, Greek Peripatetic philosopher and pupil of Aristotle (b. c. 372 BC)source
  • 285 BCETheophrastus, Greek philosopher, a native of Eressos in Lesbos, the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school (b. c. 370 BC). 288 B.C. is also given as a potential date of death.source

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