ABSTRACT
The name of Praxiphanes has not much evidence, although there is no shortage of evidence that he played no small role in the history of Hellenistic Greek culture. Praxiphanes' stay at Rhodes is reported not only by Strabo, who counted him among the island's most renowned men, but also by other sources that call him "Rhodian". If Praxiphanes attended the Lyceum in Athens, he probably left the city before his teacher's death: Theophrastus does not name him among the companions to whom he leaves the school. Eudemus, Praxiphanes, and Hieronymus as philosophers of an age of decadence of the Peripatos, in which the big philosophical issues had been dropped. It is wiser to assume that most pieces of the mosaic are now lost, but we can, in many aspects, recognize in particular the indirect effects of their work.
