Biographical and Critical Works

He wrote works on several of the ancient Greek poets, namely, περὶ Ἀνακρέοντοςπερὶ Σαπφοῦςπερὶ Σιμωνίδουπερὶ Θεσπίδοςπερὶ Αἰσχύλουπερὶ Λάσουπερὶ Πινδάρουπερὶ Στησιχόρου

He also wrote on the , and on Comedy (Περὶ κωμῳδίας). In this last work he treated, among other subjects, of the dances of comedy. (Athen. 14.628e.) This work is quoted by Athenaeus (9.374a.) by the title , which is also the tide of a work by the Peripatetic philosopher Eumelus. (Meineke, as quoted below.)

It would seem also that he wrote on Hesiod, for Diogenes says, that Chamaeleon accused Heracleides Ponticus of having stolen from him his work concerning Homer and Hesiod. (5.6.92.) The above works were probably both biographical and critical.

Philosophical and other works

He also wrote works entitled , and , and some moral treatises, (which was also ascribed to Theophrastus), , and .