Phaenias of Eresus Text, Translation, and Discussion [Hardcover]

Phaenias of Eresus (c. 375300 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 ofPhaenias of Eresuscover 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 101131

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 147169

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 Coopelƒ