Theophrastus of Eresus, Commentary Volume 9.2: Sources on Discoveries and Beginnings, Proverbs et al. (Texts 727-741)

This volume concerns Theophrastus Aristotle's pupil and successor as head of the Peripatetic School. The focus is twofold. First, it deals with discoveries and inventions, both useful and pleasurable, and more generally changes that transformation the way people live. Theophrastus wrote a work entitled On Discoveries which may be regarded as cultural history. Second the volume focuses on proverbs: familiar sayings containing useful truths that have been observed by earlier generations and p...