Phaenias of Eresus

"Phaenias of Eresus (c. 375 BC) was a member of Aristotle''s school, the ""Peripatos"" or ""Lyceum,"" and a friend and compatriot of Aristotle''s successor, Theophrastus. Phaenias''s scholarly interests stretched from strictly philosophical treatises to chronology and the history of philosophy and poetry; to the lives, fortunes, and manners of death of tyrants; to biographical and historical theme...