Praxiphanes
Praxiphanes
(), a Peripatetic philosopher, was a native either of Mytilene (Clem. Alex. 1, 3t;5, ed. Potter) or of Rhodes (Strabo, 14:655). He lived in the time of Demetrius Poliorcetes and Ptolemy Lagi, and was a pupil of Theophrastus, about B.C. 322 (Proclus, 1, In Timaeum; Tzetzes, Ad Hesiod. Op. et Dies, 1). He subsequently opened a school himself, in which Epicurus is said to have been one of his pupils (Diog. Laert. 10:13). Praxiphanes paid especial attention to grammatical studies, and is hence named along with Aristotle as the founder and creator of the science of grammar (Clem. Alex. 1. c.; Bekker, Anecdota, 2, 229, where should be read instead of ). The writings of Praxiphanes appear to have been numerous, but have no special interest today. See Preller, Disputatio de Praxiphane Peripatetico inter antiquissimos grammaticos nobili (Dorpat, 1842)..