Antigenes (historian)

Antigenes was a Greek historian, who probably lived in the late fourth century BC. He seems to have written a historical work about Alexander the Great.

Antigenes is – as well as Cleitarchus and Onesicritus – one of the older historians of Alexander mentioned by Plutarch, who described the allegedly interview of Thalestris, queen of the Amazons, with the Macedonian king as a true fact.[1] He is also mentioned by the ancient grammarian Aelius Herodianus.[2] The work of Antigenes has completely disappeared,[3] but seems to have had a topographical and scientific character.[4] It cannot be ascertained, if he is identical with Antigenes, a general of Alexander.[3]

Edition of the fragments

Notes
  1. Plutarch, Alexander 46 §, 1.
  2. Aelius Herodianus, On peculiar style (περὶ μονήρους λέξεως), p. 947, 10.
  3. Eduard Schwartz: Anigenes 10. In: Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, vol. I.2, Stuttgart 1894, col. 2399.
  4. Gerhard Wirth: Antigenes 2. In: Der Kleine Pauly, vol 1, 1964, col. 379.

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