Marsyas of Pella

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Marsyas of

Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (306 BC) (Diodorus
, xx. 50.). However, this circumstance is alone sufficient to show that he was a person who himself took an active part in public affairs, not a mere man of letters. It is probable that he followed the fortunes of his stepbrother Antigonus.

His principal work was a history of Macedonia, Makedonika, in 10 books, commencing from the earliest times, and coming down to the wars of Alexander in Asia, when it terminated abruptly in 331 BC, with the return of the monarch into Syria, after the conquest of Egypt and the foundation of Alexandria. It is repeatedly cited by

Bernhardy and Geier to be the same with Archaeology of Marsyas the younger
.

See also

References

  1. ^ Geier, Robert (1844-01-01). Alexandri M. historiarum scriptores aetate suppares, vitas enarravit, librorum fragmenta collegit, comm. illustr. R. Geier.
  • FGrHist 135/6 (Fragments).
  • W. Heckel. Marsyas of Pella, Historian of Macedon. Hermes 108 (1980), pp. 444–462.
  • R. Laqueur, RE 14.2, cols.1998-1999, s.v. Marsyas 9.

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