Table of Contents

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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