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Phaenias of Eresus Text, Translation, and Discussion

Edited By Oliver Hellmann, David Mirhady Copyright 2015
    459 Pages
    by Routledge

    460 Pages
    by Routledge

    459 Pages
    by Routledge
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    Phaenias of Eresus (c. 375–300 BC) was a member of Aristotle's school, the "Peripatos" or "Lyceum," and a friend and compatriot of Aristotle's successor, Theophrastus. Phaenias's scholarly interests stretched from strictly philosophical treatises to chronology and the history of philosophy and poetry; to the lives, fortunes, and manners of death of tyrants; to biographical and historical themes and details of famous Athenians; to botanical and zoological issues; and even entertaining, "novelistic" stories and strange reports (Mirabilia).

    This volume includes new scholarship, with translation of source texts for the writings, thought, and influence of Phaenias (whose name also appears as "Phanias"and "Phainias"), as well as essays that take up various areas of his life and work in greater detail.

    The chapters of Phaenias of Eresus cover a remarkable range of intellectual areas, which is in keeping with the varied interests of the early Peripatetics in general. Phaenias is thus an ideal model for exploring issues of specialization and differentiation in research in the early Peripatos.

    Preface Contributors 1. Phaenias of Eresus: The Sources, Text and Translation Johannes Engels 2. Two Eresians: Phainias and Theophrastus William W. Fortenbaugh 101–131 3. The Life and Times of Phaenias of Eresus Michael G. Sollenberger 4. The Fragments of Phanias of Eresus: Before and After Wehrli Tiziano Dorandi 147–169 5. Phaenias in the Mirabilia Tradition: From Antigonus to Callimachus Stephen White 6. Biography and History in Phaenias of Eresus Stefan Schorn 7. Phainias' Historiographical and Biographical Method: Chronology and Dramatization Craig Cooper 8. Phaenias' Work On the Socratics and His Fragment on Petron of Himera (56A–B = fr. 12 Wehrli) Leonid Zhmud 9. Phainias' Historical and Biographical Fragments on Solon and Themistokles (26–34) Johannes Engels 10. Phainias' The Tyrants in Sicily, On Killing of Tyrants out of Revenge, and Aristotle's Explanation of the Violent End of Tyrants Eckart Schutrumpf 11. The Plants of Phaenias Mechthild Siede 12. The Metaphor as a Scientific Device in the Botanical Description of the Mallow in Fragment 49 of Phainias of Eresus Barbara Anceschi 13. Phainias and the Naturalistic Legacy of the Peripatos Arnaud Zucker 14. Peripatetic Forms of Writing: A Systems-Theory Approach Markus Asper Index of Ancient Sources for Chapters 2–14

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