The 14 chapters in this book are edited versions of presentations at the July 2011 Project Theophrastus biennial conference Phaenias of Eresus and the Early Peripatos: Specialization and
Differentiation in Research, held in Trier, Germany. Among the topics are the life and times of Phaenias of Eresus, Phaenias in the mirabilia tradition: from "Antigonus" to Callimachus, his On
the Socratics: and his fragment on Petron of Himera, his The Tyrants in Sicily, On Killing of Tyrants out of Revenge and Aristotle’s explanation of the violent end of tyrants, and Phaenias and
the naturalistic legacy of the Peripatos. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
