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Antigonus of Carystus

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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ANTIGONUS OF CARYSTUS (in Euboea), Greek writer on various subjects, flourished in the 3rd century B.C. After some time spent at Athens and in travelling, he was summoned to the court of Attalus I. (241-197) of Pergamum. His chief work was the Lives of Philosophers drawn from personal knowledge, of which considerable fragments are preserved in Athenaeus and Diogenes Laertius. We still possess his Collection of Wonderful Tales, chiefly extracted from the Oavµaaea 'Arcouaµara attributed to Aristotle and the Oavµl a of Callimachus. It is doubtful whether he is identical with the sculptor who, according to Pliny ( Nat. Hist. xxxiv. 19), wrote books on his art.

Text in Keller, Rerum Naturalium Scriptores Graeci Minores, (1877)

see KOpke, De Antigono Carystio (1862); WilamowitzMi llendorff, "A. von Karystos," in Philologische Untersuchungen, iv. (1881).

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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Antigonus of Carystus'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​a/antigonus-of-carystus.html. 1910.
 
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