Agesilaus (historian)
Agesilaus (/əˌdʒɛsəˈleɪəs/; Greek: Ἀγησίλαος) was a Greek historian who wrote a work on the early history of Italy,[1] fragments of which are preserved in Plutarch's "Parallel Lives",[2] and in Stobaeus' Florilegium.[3]
References[]
- ^ Mason, Charles Peter (1867), "Agesilaus (3)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 70
- ^ Plutarch, Parallela, p. 312
- ^ Stobaeus' Florilegium ix, 27; liv. 49; lxv. 10
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Agesilaus (3)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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- Ancient Greek historians known only from secondary sources
- Ancient Italian history
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