ABSTRACT
Papyri and inscriptions have contributed concretely to the knowledge of the life, the writings and the thought of the Peripatetic philosopher Praxiphanes. The position of the Peripatetic philosopher remains to be determined. Capasso is convinced that Praxiphanes "carried on the ideas of Aristotle and of his own teacher Theophrastus". In an extensive examination of the positions of the two Peripatetic philosophers on friendship, in close comparison with the Epicurean theses, the scholar strives to reconstruct the doctrinal background of the conflict between Praxiphanes and Carneiscus. The remains of Philistas, by the first generation Epicurean Carneiscus, highlight the relations among Praxiphanes, Epicurus, and the members of the Garden, but they also make it possible to reconstruct some aspects of Praxiphanes' opinions on friendship and to attribute to him a work possibly titled. The renewed proposal to identify the Praxiphanes mentioned in an honorific Delian inscription with the Peripatetic philosopher contributes to the reconstruction of his chronology.
