A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

or PHAE'NIAS (Φανίας, Φαινίας ; the MSS. vary between the two forms, and both are given by Suidas).

1. Of Eresos in Lesbos, a distinguished Peripatetic philosopher, the immediate disciple of Aristotle, and the contemporary, fellow-citizen, and friend of Theophrastus, a letter of whose to Phanias is mentioned by Diogenes (5.37; Schol. in Apollon. 1.972; Strab. xiii. p.618). He is placed by Suidas (s. v.) at Ol. 11l, B. C. 336 Compp. Clem. Alex. Stromn. i. p. 145, Sylb.).