Istros the Callimachean

Istros the Callimachean (in Greek Ἴστρος ὁ Καλλιμάχειος) was a Greek writer, pupil of Callimachus, and active in the Library of Alexandria.

Life

Works

The 10th-century Suda affirms that Istros wrote extensively in both prose and verse.[1] His works exist only in fragments (FGrHist 334). Among his attested works are:

• Attika (Ἀττικά)
• Atakta (Ἄτακτα)
• Attikai lexeis (Ἀττικαὶ λέξεις)
• Argolika (Ἀργολικά)
• Eliaka (Ἠλιακά)
• The colonies of the Egyptians (Αἰγυπτίων ἀποικίαι)
• On the city of Ptolemais (Περὶ Πτολεμαΐδος)
• Collection of Cretan feasts (Συναγωγὴ τῶν Κρητικῶν θυσιῶν)
• On the struggles of Helios (Περὶ τῶν Ἡλίου ἀγώνων)
• The manifestations of Apollo (Ἀπόλλωνος ἐπιφάνειαι)
• The manifestations of Hercules (Ἡρακλέους ἐπιφάνειαι)
• On the lyric poets (Περὶ μελοποιῶν)
• Symmikta (Σύμμικτα), "Miscellany"
• Hypomnemata (Ὑπομνήματα), "Commentary"
• Replies to Timeus (Πρὸς Τίμαιον ἀντιγραφαί)

Notes

1. Suda On Line, ι 706

Further reading

• Monica Berti, Istro il Callimacheo, I, Testimonianze e frammenti su Atene e sull'Attica, Edizioni Tored, Tivoli (Roma) 2009

Other resources

• demo.fragmentarytexts.org - Istros
• The Digital Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (DFHG)
• The Digital Athenaeus