Praxiphanes
Template:Short description Praxiphanes (Template:Langx) a Peripatetic philosopher, was a native of Mytilene, who lived a long time in Rhodes.[1] He lived in the time of Demetrius Poliorcetes and Ptolemy I Soter, and was a pupil of Theophrastus, about 322 BC.[2] He subsequently opened a school himself, in which Epicurus is said to have been one of his pupils.[3] Praxiphanes paid special attention to grammatical studies, and is hence named along with Aristotle as the founder and creator of the science of grammar.[4]Template:Sfn
Writings
Of the writings of Praxiphanes, which appear to have been numerous, two are especially mentioned, a Dialogue ποιητῶν (Poiitón, 'Poetry')[5] in which Plato and Isocrates were the speakers, and an historical work cited by Marcellinus in his Life of Thucydides[6] under the title of Περὶ ἱστορίας (Perí istorías, 'About History').Template:Sfn
Praxiphanes also wrote a works titled On Friendship,[7] On Rare Words,[8] On the Universe,[9] On Poems, and commentaries on Homer's Odyssey, Hesiod's Works and Days, Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, and Plato's Timaeus.[10]Template:Sfn
Notes
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- ↑ Algra, K., The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy. Page 36. Cambridge University Press. (1999). Cf. Clement of Alexandria, i.; Strabo, xiv.
- ↑ Proclus, i. in Timaeum; John Tzetzes, ad Hesiod. Op. et Dies, 1.
- ↑ Diogenes Laërtius, x. 13
- ↑ Clement of Alexandria, i.
- ↑ Diogenes Laërtius, iii. 8
- ↑ Marcellinus, Thucydides, §29
- ↑ Carneiscus, Philistas fr. 95
- ↑ Demetrius, De elocutione 55-58
- ↑ Epiphanius, De fide 9.35-39
- ↑ Proclus, In Timaeum, 5c
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