ABSTRACT
Following Aristotle and Theophrastus, later philosophers who sought to explain meteorological phenomena worked within a framework inherited from them, in which certain phenomena were recognized as meteorological and various methods of investigation and explanation were deemed appropriate. But, while both Aristotle and Theophrastus included their work on meteorology within a larger programme of specifically natural philosophy, for later philosophical schools, particularly the Epicureans and Stoics, the explanation of meteorological phenomena was undertaken primarily as a means to a broader philosophical end, and the attainment of an ethical aim.
