Antisthenes of Rhodes

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Antisthenes of Rhodes (

Battle of Lade
(201 BCE) and was, according to Polybius, a contemporary with the events he described.

It is likely that this Antisthenes is the historian who wrote a

Diogenes Laërtius.[2] He might also be the Peripatetic philosopher cited by Phlegon of Tralles.[3]

Plutarch mentions an Antisthenes who wrote a work called Meleagris, of which the third book is quoted;[4] and Pliny the Elder speaks of an Antisthenes who wrote on the pyramids.[5]

Notes

  1. ^ Polybius, xvi. 14, etc.
  2. ^ Diogenes Laërtius, i. 40, ii. 39, 98, vi. 77, 87, vii. 168, ix. 6, 27, 35, 38, 39, 57; cf. vi. 19
  3. ^ Phlegon, de Mirabil. 3
  4. ^ Plutarch, de Flav. 22
  5. ^ Pliny, Hist. Nat. xxxvi. 12
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