ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author describes the scope of Eudemus' work by examining the Damascian context. He considers the possible place of such a survey of the "theologians" within a Peripatetic context. The author gives his reasons for not finding Wehrli's hypothesis and arguments convincing. A prominent feature of this program and an important parallel to Eudemus' survey is the attention paid to the non-Greek authors. Wehrli's arguments consist in stating that Aristotle occasionally refers to theogonical narratives in his doxographical overviews of the history of a given problem, and that can find historical digressions in the remaining fragments of Eudemus' Physics, as well. Eudemus' text, as seems obvious from Damascius, discussed this group of theologians, and it is highly improbable that Eudemus ignored the Aristotelian demarcation in his survey and treated the theologians without distinguishing them from the physikoi and other philosophers.
