ABSTRACT
This chapter defines the literary character of Chamaeleon's works of the type "Peri tou deina" more accurately than previous scholarship has done and reconsiders his specific way of working. It addresses Leo's views on Chamaeleon's works of the Peri tou deina type. Leo considered the way in which the material is presented as a fundamental difference between Chamaeleon's works and Satyrus' Life of Euripides. Chamaeleon's exegesis of the Pindar scolium reveals another feature which makes clear that he was a serious scholar who also applied methods of historical research when writing biography. Leo denies that Chamaeleon tried to reconstruct "the story of a man, his ancestry, youth and development." Thus, Chamaeleon is not quoted by later authors for the genos or the basic facts of a life, but only for character traits, anecdotes and inventions.
