Vergleich zur hellenistischen Zeit hauptsächlich durch ihr Interessea mStudium vonS chultexten, insbesonderevon Texten des Aristoteles,aus.Die Annahme, dass ein solches Interessewährenddes Hellenismus überhaupt nicht bestanden hätte, wärezwar falsch, aber erste sichereHinweise aufbedeutsame philosophische Beschäftigung mit den Texten des aristotelischen Corpus seit Theophrast und Eudemos finden sich erst gegenE nde der hellenistischenZ eit,b ei Andronikos,A ristonv on Alexandrien,B oethos vonS

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... don und Xenarchos vonS eleukeia." (257)  See, for instance, Ioppolo 1986 and, moreg enerally, the articles collected in Ead. 2013 concerning the philosophical debateb etween Stoics and Academics.  See Kupreeva 2018:2 95 -301. Baltussen 2016:C h. 6a lso covers the interaction between the Peripatetics and other schools. XII  The reference herem ay be to those books of Aristotle'sw hich, alreadyb eforet he latter's death, Eudemus had taken with him to Rhodes:c f. Rashed 2021:C CCXL.  Who in this waylends creditability to Strabo'sa nd Plutarch'se vidence -see below,n.56about the limitedc irculation of Aristotle'sw orks immediatelya fter Theophrastus' death.  Who had as trong interest in the lettero fA ristotle'st exts.  Iw ill onlym ention the case of the Epicurean philosopher Polyaenus of Lampsacus,w ho wrote aworkagainst Aristotle's Peri philosophias (Philod. Piet. col. XXXVIII 1091-1099 Obbink = Polyaen. 29 Tepedino Guerra; see also Obbink 1996:4 78 -479); Ib elievet hat his information is highlys ignificant,a si ts trongly confirms the relevance of Aristotle'ss o-called 'unpublished' works, alongside his treatises (which, in anyc ase, must have been circulatinge veno utside the Peripatetic school, as Epicurean sources suggest: see above, n. 56).