Amelesagoras

Amelesagoras (Ancient Greek: Ἀμελησαγόρας) (or Melesagoras, Μελησαγόρας, as he is called by others) of Chalcedon, was an early Greek historian.[1] The histories of Gorgias and Eudemus of Naxos both borrowed from him.[2][3][4]

Maximus Tyrius speaks of a Melesagoras, a native of Eleusis,[5] and Antigonus of Carystus of an Amelesagoras of Athens,[6] the latter of whom wrote an account of Attica; these persons are probably the same, and perhaps also the same as Amelesagoras of Chalcedon.[7]

References

1. Smith, William (1867). "Amelesagoras". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 142.
2. Clement of Alexandria, Stromata vi. p.629, a
3. Scholiast on Euripides, on Alcestis 2
4. Bibliotheca iii. 10. § 3 where the scholar Christian Gottlob Heyne has substituted Μελησαγορας for Μνησαγορας)
5. Maximus Tyrius, Serm. 38. § 3
6. Antigonus of Carystus, Hist. Mirab. c. 12
7. Gerardus Vossius, De Historicis Graecis p. 22, ed. Westermann

Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Amelesagoras". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.