Agathosthenes

Agathosthenes (Ἀγαθοσθένης) was a Greek historian or philosopher of uncertain date,[1] who is referred to by Tzetzes as his authority in matters connected with geography.[2] There is mention of a work of Agathosthenes called "Asiatica Carmina",[3] where some writers read the name "Aglaosthenes";[4] for Aglaosthenes or Aglosthenes, who is by some considered to be the same as Agathosthenes, wrote a work on the history of Naxos, of which nothing remains, but which was much used by ancient writers.[5][6][7][8][9]

References
  1. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Agathosthenes", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, p. 66
  2. John Tzetzes, ad Lycophron 704, 1021. Chil. vii. 645
  3. Germanicus, in Arat. Phaen. 24
  4. Thomas Gale, Notae in Parthen. p. 125, &c.
  5. Hyginus, Poeticon astronomicon ii, 16
  6. Eratosthenes, Catasterismi ii. 27
  7. Pollux, ix. 83
  8. Athen. iii. p. 78
  9. Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia iv. 22

Sources

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