Antisthenes of Rhodes
Antisthenes of Rhodes (Greek: Ἀντισθένης ὁ Ῥόδιος) was a Greek historian who lived c. 200 BC. He took an active part in the political affairs of his country, and wrote a history of his own time, which, notwithstanding his bias towards his native island, is spoken of in terms of high praise by Polybius.[1] He wrote an account of the Battle of Lade (201 BC) and was, according to Polybius, a contemporary with the events he described.
It is likely that this Antisthenes is the historian who wrote a Successions of the Greek philosophers which is often referred to by 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 speaks of an Antisthenes who wrote on the pyramids.[5]
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- 3rd-century BC births
- 2nd-century BC deaths
- 3rd-century BC Rhodians
- 2nd-century BC Rhodians
- Ancient Greek biographers
- Hellenistic-era historians
- 2nd-century BC historians
- Ancient Rhodian historians