ABSTRACT

In the Peripatetic school, Phainias (vel Phanias) 1 did not merit a special issue in the Wehrli series, and his fragments (51) are published along with the remains of Chamaileon and de Praxiphanes (1969). 2 The available information on his life and work are scanty (Wehrli, Wöhrle, Zhmud [2004] 588–590) and his place in ancient philosophy seems inconspicuous. 3 Due to the extensive history related fragments, this part of his work (since Bodin [1915] & [1917]), largely attracts 378the attention of the critics (Mosshammer [1977]), although history was probably not his main intellectual interest (Laqueur [1938] 1566). He was also a naturalist and particularly devoted to botany, but apparently also concerned with zoology (5). 4 This part of his activity has only ever been studied marginally, and in most cases in the scope of studies of Theophrastus. 5