This entry was prepared by Benjamin Gray and published on 1 April 2018. About this Historian Historian: Dioscurides Jacoby number: 594 Attested works: Laconian Constitution: T2; Apomnemoneumata: F7; Laws from Homer: F8b; Encomium of Crete based on Homer: T3; On Customs: F 5; On the Life of the Heroes according to Homer: F 8 Historian's date: uncertain Historical focus: III. History of Cities and Peoples (Horography and Ethnography) | B. Authors on Single Cities and Regions | LXXI. Sparta Place of origin: unknown   BNJ 594 T 1 Source: Athenaios, Deipnosophists 1.18.11a Work mentioned: n.a…

This entry was prepared by Anthony Kaldellis and published on 1 April 2018. About this Historian Historian: Myrsilos of Methymna Jacoby number: 477 Attested works: Lesbiaka: F1a; F2; F3; F18; Historica Paradoxa Historical Oddities): F4; F5 Historian's date: 3rd century BC Historical focus: III. History of Cities and Peoples (Horography and Ethnography) | B. Authors on Single Cities and Regions | XLV. Lesbos Place of origin: Methymna   BNJ 477 T 1 Source: Stephanos of Byzantion, Ethnika, s.v. Μήθυμνα (Meineke 449-50) Work mentioned: n.a. Source date: 6th century AD Source language: Gre…

This entry was prepared by Andrew Bayliss and published on 1 October 2017. About this Historian Historian: Tyrtaios Jacoby number: 580 Attested works: Historian's date: 7th century BC Historical focus: III. History of Cities and Peoples (Horography and Ethnography) | B. Authors on Single Cities and Regions | LXXI. Sparta Place of origin: Sparta Felix Jacoby’s original brief entry for Tyrtaios included only 7 fragments of the then fourteen known fragments, only the briefest of commentaries, and no testimonia. The brevity of his work on Tyrtaeus was …

This entry was prepared by Martine Cuypers and published on 1 April 2018. About this Historian Historian: Domitius Kallistratos Jacoby number: 433 Attested works: On Herakleia: F 1-F 9; On Samothrake(?): F 10 Historian's date: 1st century BC – 2nd century AD Historical focus: III. History of Cities and Peoples (Horography and Ethnography) | B. Authors on Single Cities and Regions | XXIV. Heraclea on Pontus Place of origin:   BNJ 433 F 1 Source: Stephanos of Byzantion, Ethnika , s.v. ῞Υπιος Works mentioned: On Herakleia Source date: 6th century AD Source language: Greek Fragment subject: Et…

This entry was prepared by Martine Cuypers and published on 1 April 2018. About this Historian Historian: Dei(l)ochos Jacoby number: 471 Attested works: On Kyzikos: F 1-F 10b; On Samothrace(?): F 11 Historian's date: TAQ 431 BC Historical focus: III. History of Cities and Peoples (Horography and Ethnography) | B. Authors on Single Cities and Regions | XLII. Kyzikos Place of origin: Kyzikos or Prokonessos   BNJ 471 T 1 Source: Dionysios of Halikarnassos, On Thucydides 5 (L. Radermacher and H. Usener (eds.), Dionysii Halicarnasei quae exstant 5 (Leipzig 1899)) Works mentioned: On Kyzikos S…

This entry was prepared by Eran Almagor and published on 1 October 2017. About this Historian Historian: Hippias Jacoby number: 421 Attested works: Histories of His Own Homeland Historian's date: 3rd century BC Historical focus: III. History of Cities and Peoples (Horography and Ethnography) | B. Authors on Single Cities and Regions | XXI. Erythrae Place of origin:   BNJ 421 F 1 Source: Athenaios, Deipnosophists 6.258f-259f (S.D. Olson (ed.), Athenaeus, The learned banqueters (Harvard, MA 2006-11)) Work mentioned: Source date: 2nd-3rd century AD Source language: Greek Fragment sub…