Cleitarchus
Cleitarchus or Clitarchus (
Dinon of Colophon, he spent a considerable time at the court of Ptolemy Lagus.[1]
He was active in the mid to late 4th century BCE.
Justin and Plutarch, and the authors of the Alexander romances. His unnatural and exaggerated style became proverbial.[1]
His work, the History of Alexander, is almost completely lost and has survived only in some thirty fragments preserved by ancient authors, especially by Aelian and Strabo.
A recent papyrological find from Oxyrhynchus (P.Oxy. LXXI 4808) records that he was a tutor (Greek: διδάσκαλος) of Ptolemy IV Philopator, r.221–205 BCE, and suggests that he wrote in the mid to late 3rd century, not, as was hitherto thought, in the late 4th. Luisa Prandi (2012) has recently restated the case for the "high" dating.
References
- ^ a b Chisholm 1911.
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cleitarchus". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 481.
- Luisa Prandi, Fortuna e realtà dell'opera di Clitarco (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996) (Historia. Einzelschriften, 104).
- Luisa Prandi, ′New Evidence for the Dating of Cleitarchus (POxy LXXI.4808)?′, Histos 6 (2012), 15–26, [1]
External links
- Livius.org, Cleitarchus by Jona Lendering
- Histos, In Search of Cleitarchus by A.B. Bosworth
- Pothos.org, Dating Kleitarchos by Karl Soundy
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