Modern botany traces its roots back more than twenty three centuries, to the Father of Botany, Theophrastus ( c. 371 – 287 BC ), a student of Aristotle.

He and his student Theophrastus made extensive observations on plant and animal migrations, biogeography, physiology, and on their behaviour, giving an early analogue to the modern concept of an ecological niche.

The first clear mention of a sunspot in Western literature, around 300 BC, was by the ancient Greek scholar Theophrastus, student of Plato and Aristotle and successor to the latter.

The study of the Character, as it is now known, was conceived by Aristotle ’ s student Theophrastus.

Demetrius of Phalerum ( also Demetrius of Phaleron or Demetrius Phalereus, ; c. 350 BC – c. 280 BC ) was an Athenian orator originally from Phalerum, a student of Theophrastus and one of the first Peripatetics.

Virgil used other Greek writers as models and sources, some for technical information, including the Hellenistic poet Aratus for astronomy and meteorology, Nicander for information about snakes, the philosopher Aristotle for zoology, and Aristotle's student Theophrastus for botany, and others, such as the Hellenistic poet Callimachus for poetic and stylistic considerations.

One of the first ecologists whose writings survive may have been Aristotle or perhaps his student, Theophrastus, both of whom had interest in many species of animals.

The city also forms one of the largest student centres in Southeastern Europe, is host to the largest student population in Greece and will be the European Youth Capital in 2014, after it celebrates 100 years of union with Greece in 2012.

On the first Sunday of November 1941, high school students from all over Corfu took part in student protests against the occupying Italian army ; these student protests of the island were among the first acts of overt popular Resistance in occupied Greece and a rare phenomenon even by wartime European standards.

In the modern era, beginning with its massive student protests during World War II against fascist occupation, and continuing in the fight against the dictatorship of Georgios Papadopoulos ( 1967 – 1974 ), students in Corfu have played a vanguard role in protesting in favour of freedom and democracy in Greece, setting themselves against both internal and external oppression.

He then lived for two years in Italy and Greece, was a student in the Union Theological Seminary in New York City from 1853 to 1855, and in 1856 graduated at the Princeton Theological Seminary.

It is rumored that the professor is engaged in writing a monumental English-language history of Ancient Greece and he is usually left alone by the student body, but the Dana girls discover he can be a useful source of obscure facts relating to the clues in a mystery.

One officer has been charged, and Reuters noted that " Greece has a tradition of violence at student rallies and fire bomb attacks by anarchist groups.

* In Greece, after a six-year study, a medical student acquires his medical degree and the right to use " Δρ.

She attended classes in the National Theatre of Greece and started to act professional while still a student.

The Institute is engaged in the Erasmus student exchange programme with other colleges in Austria, Belgium, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal and Spain.

He also worked on volcanic gas analyses, using the methods of Robert Bunsen, mainly with his student Henri Gorceix on Santorini ( Greece ).

As a student, she became a member of the Communist Youth of Greece, the youth section of the Communist Party of Greece ( KKE ), but also became actively involved in the antidictatorial struggle and took part in the Athens Polytechnic uprising.

Canada, Greece, Portugal, and the United Kingdom do not have student pilots in training, but do provide one instructor pilot.

In Rock, the player takes on the persona of the title character Willford Rockwell, an archeology student, who is faced with the aftermath of a fanatical group called the Olympian Restoration Army ( ORA ), who somehow have managed to bring back to life a host of mythological creatures from Ancient Greece, including Zeus, king of the Gods, who has abducted Will's girlfriend Emma.

On January 27, 2008, the Minister for National Education and Religious Affairs of Greece, Evripidis Stylianidis, reproduced the hoax in his opening speech for the finals of the annual student debate competition, in an attempt to praise the Greek language superiority.

In Greece there are panhellenic examinations ( πανελλήνιες, panelinies ) after a student completes likio.

She attends the same high school as Jennifer Walters and Janet van Dyne, and hides her Atlantean heritage by claiming to be an exchange student from Greece under the name of " Namora Aquarius ".

Komotini is an established university city in the North of Greece known for its high standard of education and the unique and unforgettable ' Komotini student experience '.

The series began with the 1982 Rough Guide to Greece, a book conceived by Mark Ellingham, who was dissatisfied with the polarisation of existing guidebooks between cost-obsessed student guides and " heavyweight cultural tomes.

According to the OECD's Programme for International Student Assessment ( PISA ), the average Portuguese 15-years old student was for many years underrated and underachieving in terms of reading literacy, mathematics and science knowledge in the OECD, nearly tied with the Italian and just above countries like Greece, Turkey and Mexico.

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Plato ’ s student Aristotle ( 384-322 BC ) developed a different explanation for the elements based on pairs of qualities.

Pythagoras ( 582-496 BC ) of Ionia, and later, Italy, then colonized by Greeks, may have been a student of Thales, and traveled to Babylon and Egypt.

Euclid ( c. 325-265 BC ), of Alexandria, probably a student of one of Plato ’ s students, wrote a treatise in 13 books ( chapters ), titled The Elements of Geometry, in which he presented geometry in an ideal axiomatic form, which came to be known as Euclidean geometry.

The Ancient Library of Alexandria According to the earliest source of information, the pseudepigraphic Letter of Aristeas, the library was initially organized by Demetrius of Phaleron, a student of Aristotle, under the reign of Ptolemy I Soter ( ca. 367 BC — ca. 283 BC ).

347 BC ), a student of Socrates.

Eventually, this gifted student became dissatisfied with the level of philosophical instruction available in Alexandria, and went to Athens, the preeminent philosophical center of the day, in 431 to study at the Neoplatonic successor of the famous Academy founded 800 years ( in 387 BC ) before by Plato ; there he was taught by Plutarch of Athens ( not to be confused with Plutarch of Chaeronea ), Syrianus, and Asclepigenia ; he succeeded Syrianus as head of the Academy, and would in turn be succeeded on his death by Marinus of Neapolis.

Plato's student Aristotle ( 384-322 BC ) famously set forth an extended treatise on rhetoric that still repays careful study today.

* 489 BC — Birth of Eudoxus of Cnidus, early mathematician and adherent of Pythagoras Dion, student of Plato and tyrant of Syracuse

* Zengzi, 505 BC – 436 BC, student of Confucius, wrote Great Learning

Shang Yang was executed in 338 BC due to a grudge by the leader King Wu over a student who had been executed because of Shang Yang's insistence that law applied even to nobility.

Eudoxus of Cnidus ( 410 or 408 BC – 355 or 347 BC ) was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, scholar and student of Plato.

* 384 BC – Aristotle, Greek philosopher, a student of Plato, and teacher of Alexander the Great

In the 4th century BC, two influential Greek philosophers, Plato and his student Aristotle, wrote works based on the geocentric model.

This Apollodorus has been mistakenly identified with Apollodorus of Athens ( born c. 180 BC ), a student of Aristarchus of Samothrace, mainly as it is known — from references in the minor scholia on Homer — that Apollodorus of Athens did leave a similar comprehensive repertory on mythology, in the form of a verse chronicle.

In Aristophanes ' comedy The Clouds ( 423 BC ), when the character Socrates is quizzing his student on poetic meters, Strepsiades declares that he knows quite well what a dactyl is, and gives the finger.

Moschus (), ancient Greek bucolic poet and student of the Alexandrian grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace, was born at Syracuse and flourished about 150 BC.

Antipater was a student of Aristotle and Aristotle named him as executor-in-charge of his will, when he died in 322 BC.