Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities
About the Book Series
ADVISORY BOARD:
Han Baltussen, University of Adelaide, Australia
Tiziano Dorandi, CNRS, France
Myrto Hatzimichali, University of Cambridge
Oliver Hellmann, Trier University, Germany
Robert Mayhew, Seton Hall University, USA
Stefan Schorn, KU Leuven, Belgium
Georgia Tsouni, University of Crete, Greece
Stephen A. White, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Arnaud Zucker, Université Côte d’Azur, France
This series, often referred to by the acronym RUSCH, grew out of Project Theophrastus, an international undertaking, whose purpose has been to collect, edit and comment on the surviving works and fragments of Theophrastus of Eresus, Aristotle’s pupil and successor as head of the Peripatetic School. To foster this endeavor a series of conferences were established that focused on subjects relevant to Theophrastus. The proceedings of these conferences were deemed worthwhile in their own right and under the direction of Professor William Fortenbaugh were published as volumes of RUSCH. Initially the volumes were closely related to work on Theophrastus, but in time the focus widened to included Theophrastus’ colleagues and successors in the Peripatos. Currently the volumes collect and edit the relevant texts, offer an English translation, and provide discussion of important issues. They contribute to our knowledge of philosophic developments within the Hellenistic Period, when the Academy and the Peripatos, the school of Aristotle, were challenged by the founding of new schools including the Stoics and the Epicureans.
Critolaus of Phaselis: Essays on Second Century BC Peripatetic Philosophy
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Mayhew, Stefan Schorn
February 13, 2026
This is the first volume in over a century devoted to the second-century bce Peripatetic philosopher Critolaus of Phaselis, covering his views on cosmology, god, ethics, rhetoric, and politics. Critolaus of Phaselis was the most prominent Aristotelian philosopher of the second century bce; he was ...
Theophrastus of Eresus: On His Life and Work
1st Edition
By William W. Fortenbaugh
August 19, 2025
This series in the field of classics grew out of Project Theophrastus, an international undertaking whose goal is to collect, edit, and comment on the fragments of Theophrastus, Greek philosopher, Aristotle's pupil and second head of the Peripatetic School. Contributions are by international ...
The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science
1st Edition
Edited
By Arnaud Zucker, Robert Mayhew, Oliver Hellmann
July 31, 2025
This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the Aristotelian study of nature and especially of animals. The chapters in this volume explore the Mirabilia, or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On ...
Historiography and Mythography in the Aristotelian Mirabilia
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Schorn, Robert Mayhew
March 13, 2025
This is the first full-length volume in English that focuses on the historiographical section of the Mirabilia or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), attributed to Aristotle but not in fact by him. The central section of the Mirabilia, namely §§ 78–151, for the most part ...
Clearchus of Soli: Text, Translation, and Discussion
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Mayhew, David C. Mirhady, Tiziano Dorandi, Stephen White
October 28, 2024
This book showcases a figure whose life and work bridge Classical and Hellenistic Greece. It comprises Tiziano Dorandi’s comprehensive new edition of the Clearchus ‘fragments’, accompanied by a richly annotated English translation from Stephen White, as well as nine new studies examining key ...
Cicero's Knowledge of the Peripatos
1st Edition
Edited
By William W. Fortenbaugh, Peter Steinmetz
December 18, 2020
Cicero is best known for his political speeches. His Catilinarian orations are regularly studied in third or fourth year Latin; his self-proclaimed role as savior of the Republic is much discussed in courses on Roman history. But, however fascinating such material may be, there is another side to ...
Phaenias of Eresus: Text, Translation, and Discussion
1st Edition
Edited
By Oliver Hellmann, David Mirhady
December 18, 2020
Phaenias of Eresus (c. 375–300 BC) was a member of Aristotle's school, the "Peripatos" or "Lyceum," and a friend and compatriot of Aristotle's successor, Theophrastus. Phaenias's scholarly interests stretched from strictly philosophical treatises to chronology and the history of philosophy and ...
The Passionate Intellect: Essays on the Transformation of Classical Traditions presented to Professor I.G. Kidd
1st Edition
Edited
By Lewis Ayres
December 18, 2020
Ian Kidd, of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, has long been known as a world-class scholar of ancient philosophy and of Posidonius, in particular. Through his long struggle with the fragments of Posidonius, Kidd has done more than any other scholar of ancient philosophy to dispel the myth ...
Arius Didymus on Peripatetic Ethics, Household Management, and Politics: Text, Translation, and Discussion
1st Edition
Edited
By William W Fortenbaugh
June 30, 2020
This volume features a unique epitome (original summation) of Aristotelian practical philosophy. It is often attributed to Arius Didymus who composed a survey of Peripatetic thought on three closely related areas: ethics, household management, and politics. The quality of the epitome, which draws ...
Theophrastus: Reappraising the Sources
1st Edition
Edited
By Johannes M. van Ophuijsen, Marlein van Raalte
May 07, 2019
Theophrastus was Aristotle's pupil and second head of the Peripatetic School. Apart from two botanical works, a collection of character sketches, and several scientific opuscula, his works survive only through quotations and reports in secondary sources. Recently these quotations and reports have ...
Theophrastus: His Psychological, Doxographical, and Scientific Writings
1st Edition
Edited
By William W. Fortenbaugh, Dimitri Gutas
April 16, 2018
Theophrastus of Eresus was Aristotle's pupil and successor as head of the Peripatetic School. He is best known as the author of the amusing Characters and two ground-breaking works in botany, but his writings extend over the entire range of Hellenistic philosophic studies. Volume 5 of Rutgers ...
Dicaearchus of Messana: Text, Translation and Discussion
1st Edition
Edited
By William W. Fortenbaugh, Eckart Schütrumpf
February 06, 2018
Dicaearchus of Messana (fl. c. 320 b.c.) was a peripatetic philosopher. Like Theophrastus of Eresus, he was a pupil of Aristotle. Dicaearchus's life is not well documented. There is no biography by Diogenes Laertius, and what the Suda offers is meager. However, it can be ascertained that a close ...