Antilochus (historian)

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Antilochus (Ancient Greek : Ἀντίλοχος) was a historian of ancient Greece who wrote an account of the Greek philosophers from the time of Pythagoras to the death of Epicurus, whose system he himself adopted. [1] He seems to be the same as the "Antilogus" mentioned by Dionysius of Halicarnassus. [2] [3] Theodoret quotes an Antilochus as his authority for placing the tomb of Cecrops I on the acropolis of Athens, [4] but as Clement of Alexandria [5] and Arnobius [6] refer for the same fact to a writer of the name of "Antiochus", there may possibly be an error in Theodoret.

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Notes

  1. ↑ Clement of Alexandria, Stromata i. p. 133
  2. ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Comp. Verb. 4
  3. ↑ comp. Anonym. Descript. Olymp. xlix
  4. ↑ Theodoret, Therap. viii. p. 908
  5. ↑ Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus p. 13
  6. ↑ Arnobius, Adversus Gentes 6.6

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