Question: The person Metrocles studied under presided over the Peripatetic school for how many years?

Theophrastus ( ; Greek: Θεόφραστος "Theόphrastos"; c. 371 – c. 287 BC ), a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school.  He came to Athens at a young age and initially studied in Plato's school.  After Plato's death, he attached himself to Aristotle who took to Theophrastus his writings.  Theophrastus presided over the Peripatetic school for thirty-six years, during which time the school flourished greatly.  When Aristotle fled Athens, Theophrastus took over as head of the Lyceum.  He is often considered the "father of botany" for his works on plants.  After his death, the Athenians honoured him with a public funeral.  His successor as head of the school was Strato of Lampsacus. <SEP> John Matthias is an American poet.  He was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1941.  Matthias attended the Ohio State University and Stanford University.  While still in high school, he studied with John Berryman at a summer writing conference at the University of Utah in 1959 and kept in touch with Berryman for the rest of the latter's life.  While in graduate school at Stanford he studied under the poet and critic Yvor Winters but did not conform to Winters' stringent anti-modernist position.  In fact, Matthias became deeply interested in modernism, especially British modernism, which he came to know well during many years of residence in England, editing the anthology "23 Modern British Poets" in 1970, a groundbreaking personal intervention.  His peers at Stanford included two future poets laureate of the United States, Robert Hass and Robert Pinsky, as well as the poets Ken Fields, James McMichael, and John Peck.  When he left Stanford in 1966, he spent a year in London as a Fulbright Scholar where he met Diana Adams, and married her a year later.  Diana's distinguished family includes several artists and writers, including her brother-in-law Wayland Young (Lord Kennet), the sculptor Emily Young, and the novelist Louisa Young.  Many of Matthias’s poems deal with this family.  In 1976 Matthias became a Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and has since 1977 been a Life Member.  Although his main academic job has been at the University of Notre Dame, he has spent much of his professional life in Britain, where he did major scholarly work on the Anglo-Welsh poet and painter David Jones, editing both the poetry and essays on Jones’ work for Faber and Faber, the National Poetry Foundation, and University of Wales Press. <SEP> Metrocles (Greek: Μητροκλῆς ; fl.  He studied in Aristotle’s Lyceum under Theophrastus, and eventually became a follower of Crates of Thebes who married Metrocles’ sister Hipparchia.  c. 325 BC) was a Cynic philosopher from Maroneia.  Very little survives of his writings, but he is important as one of the first Cynics to adopt the practice of writing moral anecdotes ("chreiai") about Diogenes and other Cynics. <SEP> The multitude of Hindu temples in North Paravur are often attributed to the influence of the Travancore and Cochin state rulers who presided over the region for many years.  In addition, throughout history North Paravur saw the arrival of many Brahmins, who settled and constructed many more temples of worship.