Strato of Lampsacus

Strato of Lampsacus
Strato, depicted as a medieval scholar in the Nuremberg Chronicle
Born	c. 335 BCE Lampsacus (now Lapseki, Çanakkale, Turkey)
Died	c. 269 BCE (aged c. 66) Athens
Era	Ancient philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Peripateticism
Main interests	Natural philosophy, Physics

Strato of Lampsacus (/ˈstreɪtoʊ/; Greek: Στράτων ὁ Λαμψακηνός, translit. Strátōn ho Lampsakēnós, c. 335 – c. 269 BCE) was a Peripatetic philosopher, and the third director (scholarch) of the Lyceum after the death of Theophrastus. He devoted himself especially to the study of natural science, and increased the naturalistic elements in Aristotle's thought to such an extent, that he denied the need for an active god to construct the universe, preferring to place the government of the universe in the unconscious force of nature alone.