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William W. FortenbaughLibri
William Fortenbaugh è Professore Emerito di Studi Classici presso la Rutgers University. Il suo lavoro approfondisce la filosofia antica e il suo contesto storico. Esamina il pensiero e la retorica di figure chiave dell'antichità e la loro influenza sugli sviluppi successivi. Il suo approccio è analitico e profondamente radicato nelle fonti storiche.
Focusing on the construction and racing achievements of a unique twenty-eight-foot wooden Catboat named Ghost, the author shares insights from his retirement. William Fortenbaugh, a seasoned academic in Classics, reflects on the boat's remarkable performance and significance, emphasizing its craftsmanship and the joy it brought him. This work intertwines personal narrative with nautical history, showcasing the blend of passion for sailing and scholarly expertise.
Focusing on the twenty-eight-foot wooden Catboat, Ghost, this book chronicles her significance in the unique A Cat racing class from Barnegat Bay, established in 1922. After struggling during the Great Depression, the class revived in 1980 with Ghost becoming a standout, winning seven consecutive Bay championships from 1994 to 2000. The detailed building process is captured in photographs, showcasing craftsmanship and design. The narrative also covers her racing challenges and successes, concluding with her current display at the New Jersey Maritime Museum.
Theophrastus of Eresus was Aristotle's successor as head of the Peripatetic School. He is best known for a humorous collection of character sketches, but his importance in antiquity and for the history of thought in general is much greater. He was the founder of systematic botany, and his work on logic went well beyond that of Aristotle, as did his interest in rhetoric and poetics. He was the first to collect the laws of different city-states, and in ethics he emphasized manners as well as moral virtue. In recent years, his importance has been more fully appreciated through the efforts of Professor William Fortenbaugh, who founded Project Theophrastus, an international undertaking whose goal has been to collect, edit and comment on the fragments of Theophrastus. While leading this project, Professor Fortenbaugh has been writing on Theophrastus, highlighting his achievements and making connections between areas like logic and rhetoric, psychology and religion, ethics and politics. The present volume brings together for the first time twenty-two of his essays.
Contents: Stephen White: Opuscula and Opera in the Catalogue of Theophrastus’ WorksHan Baltussen: Theophrastean Echoes? The De Sensibus in the Platonic and Aristotelian TraditionPamela M. Huby: Arabic Evidence about Theophrastus’ De SensibusTodd Ganson: A Puzzle Concerning the Aristotelian Notion of a Medium of Sense-PerceptionIstván M. Bodnár: Theophrastus’ De igne: Orthodoxy, Reform and Readjustment in the Doctrine of ElementsGeorg Wöhrle: Ps-Aristoteles De Coloribus – A Theophrastean Opusculum? David Sider: On On Signs – R. A. H. King: Nutrition and Fatigue Amneris Roselli: Greek Medical Theories of FatigueSabine Vogt: Theophrast, De VertigineArmelle Debru: La sueur des corps: le De sudore de Théophraste face à la tradition médicaleJohn Dillon: Theophrastus’ Critique of the Old Academy in the MetaphysicsH. Takahashi: Syriac Fragments of Theophrastean Meteorology and MineralogyIndexContributors and Editors
