Marsyas of Pella (Ancient Greek: Μαρσύας Περιάνδρου Πελλαῖος; c. 356 BC – c. 294 BC[citation needed]), son of Periander, was a Greek historian. According to the Suda Encyclopedia, he was a brother of Antigonus I Monophthalmus, who was afterwards king of Asia, by which an uterine brother alone can be meant, as the father of Antigonus was named Philip. Both of these statements point to his being of noble birth, and appear strangely at variance with the assertion that he was a mere professional grammarian Grammatodidascalus, a statement which Robert Geier[1] conjectures plausibly enough to refer in fact to Marsyas of Philippi. Suidas, indeed, seems in many points to have confounded the two. The only other fact transmitted to us concerning the life of Marsyas, is that he was appointed by Demetrius Poliorcetes to command one division of his fleet in the Battle of Salamis in Cyprus (306 BC) (Diodorus, xx. 50.). However, this circumstance is alone sufficient to show that he was a person who himself took an active part in public affairs, not a mere man of letters. It is probable that he followed the fortunes of his stepbrother Antigonus.
His principal work was a history of Macedonia, Makedonika, in 10 books, commencing from the earliest times, and coming down to the wars of Alexander in Asia, when it terminated abruptly in 331 BC, with the return of the monarch into Syria, after the conquest of Egypt and the foundation of Alexandria. It is repeatedly cited by Athenaeus, Plutarch, Harpocration, Gnaeus Pompeius Trogus and Justin (historian). Suidas also speaks of a history on the education of Alexander, (Αλεξάνδρου αγωγή) and a treatise on the history of antiquities of Athens (Αττικά) in 12 books, which is considered by Bernhardy and Geier to be the same with Archaeology of Marsyas the younger.
^Geier, Robert (1844-01-01). Alexandri M. historiarum scriptores aetate suppares, vitas enarravit, librorum fragmenta collegit, comm. illustr. R. Geier.
MarsyasofPella (Ancient Greek: Μαρσύας Περιάνδρου Πελλαῖος; c. 356 BC – c. 294 BC[citation needed]), son of Periander, was a Greek historian. According...
Olympus. Alternatively, the latter was said to be Marsyas' son and/or pupil and eromenos. Marsyas was an expert player on the double-piped double reed...
Perdiccas III of Macedon written by the Macedonian general and statesman Antipater. The Macedonian historians MarsyasofPella and Marsyasof Philippi wrote...
to later tradition the second king of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia. The Macedonian historian MarsyasofPella relates the following aetiological story...
list, MarsyasofPella, Theopompos, and Justin all agree that Caranus was Perdiccas' father. Furthermore, Plutarch claimed in his biography of Alexander...
Manetho Marsyas ofPellaMarsyasof Philippi Menander of Ephesus Neanthes of Cyzicus Nicander Paeon of Amathus Palaephatus Philinus of Agrigentum Philochorus...
list, MarsyasofPella, Theopompos, and Justin all agree that Caranus was Perdiccas' father. Furthermore, Plutarch claimed in his biography of Alexander...
According to MarsyasofPella (c. 330 BC), Pierus was the son of Makednos by a local woman and brother of Amathus (Emathus), eponym of Emathia but Solinus...
Critophemus. He was often called Marsyas the Younger (Greek: Μαρσύας ὁ Νεώτερος) to distinguish him from MarsyasofPella, with whom he has frequently been...
site of substantial archaeological activity, as numerous important findings have been unearthed. According to Justin (7.1) citing MarsyasofPella Caranus...
Alexander. Work of Hieronymus of Cardia On the education of Alexander and Macedonian history by MarsyasofPella Work of Medius of Larissa Work of Nearchus,...
in Egypt MarsyasofPella (356–294) historian Marsyasof Philippi (3rd century BC) historian Hippolochus (early 3rd century BC) description of a Macedonian...
and poet Marinus – philosopher MarsyasofPella – writer Matris of Thebes – rhetor Matron of Pitane – parodist Maximus of Smyrna – anatomist and philosopher...
apparently first called son of Makednos in MarsyasofPella (c. 330 BC), who made Emathos and Pieros the eponymous founders of these two regions in Ancient...
burial and nailed Marsyas' flayed skin to a nearby pine-tree as a lesson to the others. Marsyas' blood turned into the river Marsyas. But Apollo soon repented...
region of Macedonia, such as the Pella curse tablet. This local variety is usually classified by scholars as a dialect of Northwest Doric Greek, and occasionally...
Polemaeus, father of Polemaeus. His nephew Telesphorus may have been the son of a third brother. He also had a younger half-brother, Marsyas, from his mother's...
This is a list of known wars, conflicts, battles/sieges, missions and operations involving ancient Greek city states and kingdoms, Magna Graecia, other...
given in the lexicon of Photius) offers a different explanation apparently given by Marsyas, son of Periander: that a large proportion of the population lived...
famous group Athena and Marsyasof Myron, dedicated on the acropolis a few years earlier. The movement also recalls that of the South metope XXVII. Then...
exhibited at National Archaeological Museum of Athens, depicts the mythical contest between Apollo and Marsyas, with a Greek pandouris being played by a...
which ruled the kingdom of Macedon during the Hellenistic period. Founded by Antigonus I Monophthalmus, a general and successor of Alexander the Great, the...
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