Phaenias of Eresus : text, translation and discussion / edited by Oliver Hellmann and David Mirhady.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hellmann, Oliver, editor.

Mirhady, David C., 1960- editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Rutgers University studies in classical humanities ; v. 19.

Rutgers University studies in classical humanties ; XIX

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Phaenias.

Physical Description:

x, 449 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, [2015]

Language Note:

Translation and commentary in English; source texts in Greek.

Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Phaenias of Eresus : the sources, text and translation / Johannes Engels

Eresians : Phainias and Theophrastus / William W. Fortenbaugh

The life and times of Phaenias of Eresus / Michael G. Sollenberger

The fragments of Phanias of Eresus : before and after Wehrli / Tiziano Dorandi

Phaenias in the mirabilia tradition : from "Antigonus" to Callimachus / Stephen White

Biography and history in Phaenias of Eresus / Stefan Schorn

Phainias' historiographical and biographical method : chronology and dramatization / Craig Cooper

Phaenias' work On the Socratics and his fragment on Petron of Himera (56A-B = fr. 12 Wehrli) / Leonid Zhmud

Phainias' historical and biographical fragments on Solon and Themistokles (26-34) / Johannes Engels

Phainias' The Tyrants in Sicily, On Killing of Tyrants out of Revenge, and Aristotle's explanation of the violent end of tyrants / Eckart Schütrumpf

The plants of Phaenias / Mechthild Siede

The metaphor as a scientific device in the botanical description of the mallow in fragment 49 of Phainias of Eresus / Barbara Anceschi

Phainias and the naturalistic legacy of the Peripatos / Arnaud Zucker

Peripatetic forms of writing, a systems-theory approach / Markus Asper.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1412862477

9781412862479

OCLC:

911073678

Publisher Number:

99965079578