Phaenias of Eresus

Oliver Hellmann, David Mirhady

• PrefaceContributors1. Phaenias of Eresus: The Sources, Text and TranslationJohannes Engels2. Two Eresians: Phainias and TheophrastusWilliam W. Fortenbaugh 101–1313. The Life and Times of Phaenias of EresusMichael G. Sollenberger4. The Fragments of Phanias of Eresus: Before and After WehrliTiziano Dorandi 147–1695. Phaenias in the Mirabilia Tradition: From "Antigonus" to CallimachusStephen White6. Biography and History in Phaenias of EresusStefan Schorn7. Phainias' Historiographical and Biographical Method: Chronology and DramatizationCraig Cooper8. Phaenias' Work On the Socratics and His Fragment on Petron of Himera (56A–B = fr. 12 Wehrli)Leonid Zhmud9. Phainias' Historical and Biographical Fragments on Solon and Themistokles (26–34)Johannes Engels10. Phainias' The Tyrants in Sicily, On Killing of Tyrants out of Revenge, and Aristotle's Explanation of the Violent End of TyrantsEckart Schutrumpf11. The Plants of PhaeniasMechthild Siede12. The Metaphor as a Scientific Device in the Botanical Description of the Mallow in Fragment 49 of Phainias of EresusBarbara Anceschi13. Phainias and the Naturalistic Legacy of the PeripatosArnaud Zucker14. Peripatetic Forms of Writing: A Systems-Theory ApproachMarkus AsperIndex of Ancient Sources for Chapters 2–14

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