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PHANIAS

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 346 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG
PHANIAS , of Eresus in Lesbos, Greek philosopher, important as an immediate follower of and commentator on
Aristotle
 , came to Athens about 332 B.C., and joined his compatriot, Theophrastus, in the Peripatetic school. He wrote works entitled Analytica, Categoriae and De interpretation, which were either paraphrases or
critical
  commentaries, and seem to have added little to
Aristotle
 's own writings. Alexander of Aphrodisias refers to a
work
  irpos ALbSwpov, and Athenaeus quotes from another treatise, Against the Sophists. Outside philosophy, he and Theophrastus carried on the
physical
  investigations of Aristotle; Athenaeus frequently quotes from a
work
  on botany which manifests
great
  care in definitions and accuracy of observation. From Plutarch (Life of Themistocles) we learn that he was regarded as an historian of importance. The
chief
  of his historical works is the Prytaneis Eresii, which was either a history of his native place or a general history of
Greece
  arranged according to the period of the Eresian magistracy. He wrote also works on the Tyrants of Sicily and on tyranny in general. The value of these hooks is attested by the frequency with which they are quoted on questions of chronology (e.g. by Plutarch, Suidas, Athenaeus). To the history of Greek literature he contributed works on the poets and on the Socratics, both of which are quoted.
He must be distinguished from another Phanias, a Stoic philosopher, disciple of Posidonius.
Diogenes
  Laertius mentions a work of his wherein he compares Posidonius with Panaetius in arguing from
physical
  principles.


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