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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Tyrtamos in Eresos around 371 BC, he came to Athens young and studied under Plato before attaching himself to Aristotle, who admired his eloquence enough to rename him Theophrastus — "divine speaker." When Aristotle fled Athens, Theophrastus inherited the Lyceum and ran it for thirty-six years, during which the Peripatetic school flourished. His "Enquiry into Plants" and "On the Causes of Plants" laid botany's groundwork, and his range stretched wide: ethics, metaphysics, grammar, logic, stones, the senses. He saw space as the arrangement of bodies, time as motion's shadow, happiness as shaped by circumstance as much as virtue. Athens gave him a public funeral around 287 BC.