ABSTRACT
One of the most striking characteristics of the Lyceum is ts thorough organization of scientific erudition, in accordance With the ideal of knowledge as Aristotle conceived it. It was probably at his inspiration, if not under his direction, that Theophrastos of Eresos (the Scholarch of the school at a troublous time, from 322 to 288-287, and, it is said, until his eighty-fifth year) composed the great history of the Opinions of the Physicists, the importance of which has been mentioned (above, p. 11); that Eudemos of Rhodes wrote a History of Geometry, Arithmetic, and Astronomy, the fragments of which are of infinite value, and probably, too, a history of the early cosmogonies; and that Menon wrote a history of medicine, Phanias of Eresos, a history of poetry and a history of the Socratic schools, Dicaearchos of Messana, a Life of the Greeks, which was a history of Hellenic civilization, and Aristoxenos of Taras, a history of music.
