{"id":4102,"date":"2010-06-12T14:55:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T14:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/theophrastus\/"},"modified":"2019-06-10T07:40:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T06:40:42","slug":"theophrastus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/theophrastus\/","title":{"rendered":"Theophrastus"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/strong>heophrastus<\/strong> (372\u2013287 BC)<\/strong> was a student of Aristotle<\/a>, whom he eventually succeeded at the Lyceum, \"\"<\/a>the home of the Peripatetic school of philosophy,*<\/span>which he headed for thirty-six years. Eventually, he was succeeded by Strato<\/a> of Lampsacus.*<\/span><\/p>\n

Theophrastus is frequently quoted as referring to Atlantis having colonies in the ‘sea’. Philo of Alexandria<\/a> in his De Aeternitate Mindi<\/em>[1423<\/a>]<\/sup> has cited Theophrastus’ belief in the reality of Atlantis. Thorwald C. Franke<\/a> expands on this in Appendix F of his Aristotle and Atlantis<\/em>[880<\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Theophrastus is sometimes referred to as the \u2018father of botany\u2019 and was one of the earliest writers to note that trees gained an extra outer layer each year. However, it would take over two thousand years before this fact led to the development of today\u2019s invaluable science of dendrochronology<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Theophrastus (372\u2013287 BC) was a student of Aristotle, whom he eventually succeeded at the Lyceum, the home of the Peripatetic school of philosophy,*which he headed for thirty-six years. Eventually, he was succeeded by Strato of Lampsacus.* Theophrastus is frequently quoted as referring to Atlantis having colonies in the ‘sea’. Philo of Alexandria in his De […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[133,417,5171,968,5993,2940,692],"class_list":["post-4102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aristotle","tag-dendrochronology","tag-lyceum","tag-philo-of-alexandria","tag-strato-of-lampsacus","tag-theophrastus","tag-thorwald-c-franke"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}