285 BC - Deaths

Deaths

  • Dicaearchus, Greek philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and author (b. c. 350 BC)
  • Theophrastus, Greek philosopher, a native of Eressos in Lesbos, the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic school (b. c. 370 BC)


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