Phaenias of Eresus: Text, Translation, and Discussion

ISBN-13: 9781412862479 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 459 str.

Oliver Hellmann; David Mirhady

Opis

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.

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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

O autorze

Oliver Hellmann, David Mirhady