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PHANIAS , of Eresus in See also:Lesbos, See also:Greek philosopher, important as an immediate follower of and commentator on See also:Aristotle, came to See also:Athens about 332 B.C., and joined his compatriot, See also:Theophrastus, in the Peripatetic school. He wrote See also:works entitled Analytica, Categoriae and De See also:- INTERPRETATION (from Lat. interpretari, to expound, explain, inter pres, an agent, go-between, interpreter; inter, between, and the root pret-, possibly connected with that seen either in Greek 4 p4'ew, to speak, or irpa-rrecv, to do)
interpretation, which were either paraphrases or See also:critical commentaries, and seem to have added little to Aristotle's own writings. See also:Alexander of Aphrodisias refers to a See also:work irpos ALbSwpov, and See also:Athenaeus quotes from another See also:treatise, Against the See also:Sophists. Outside See also:philosophy, he and Theophrastus carried on the See also:physical investigations of Aristotle; Athenaeus frequently quotes from a work on See also:botany which manifests See also:great care in See also:definitions and accuracy of observation. From See also:Plutarch (See also:Life of See also:Themistocles) we learn that he was regarded as an historian of importance. The See also:chief of his See also:historical works is the Prytaneis Eresii, which was either a See also:history of his native See also:place or a See also:general history of See also:Greece arranged according to the See also:period of the Eresian magistracy. He wrote also works on the Tyrants of See also:Sicily and on tyranny in general. The value of these hooks is attested by the frequency with which they are quoted on questions of See also: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, See also:disciple of See also:Posidonius. See also:Diogenes Laertius mentions a work of his wherein he compares Posidonius with See also:Panaetius in arguing from physical principles.
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