Philochorus of Athens (/fɪˈlɒkərəs/; Ancient Greek: Φιλόχορος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; c. 340 BC – c. 261 BC),[1] was a Greek historian and Atthidographer of the third century BC, and a member of a priestly family. He was a seer and interpreter of signs, and a man of considerable influence.[2]
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Philochorus of Athens (/fɪˈlɒkərəs/; Ancient Greek: Φιλόχορος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; c. 340 BC – c. 261 BC), was a Greek historian and Atthidographer of the third...
polis, with a sprig of olive and a crescent for the moon. According to Philochorus, it was known as glaux (γλαύξ, 'little owl') throughout the ancient world...
common obverse of the Athenian tetradrachms after 510 BC and according to Philochorus, the Athenian tetradrachm was known as glaux (γλαύξ, little owl) throughout...
According to Macrobius, who mentions the goddess in his Saturnalia, Philochorus, in his Atthis (referred to by Macrobius), identifies this god with the...
independently, include Pherecydes (mid-fifth century BC), Demon (c. 400 BC), Philochorus, and Cleidemus (both fourth century BC). As the subject of myth, the...
incident involving Phidias, but little context is provided. According to Philochorus, as quoted by a scholiast on Aristophanes, Phidias was put to death by...
occurs in Aristophanes' play The Birds 1594, then again in Aristotle, Philochorus, and Lucian. In Latin it occurs as alcyonides dies in Pliny the Elder...
re-installed Phocian rule. Accepting the writings of the Greek historian Philochorus, a group of historians led by Karl Julius Beloch, Benjamin Dean Meritt...
obtained Megaris as his portion and founded Nisaea. Now, according to Philochorus, his rule extended from the Isthmus to the Pythium, but according to...
one in Against Aristogeiton. One is by the Hellenistic atthidographer Philochorus, cited by Harpocration in the second century AD; the other is from Plutarch's...
bearded statue of a male Aphrodite, called Aphroditus by Aristophanes. Philochorus in his Atthis (ap. Macrobius loc. cit.) further identified this divinity...
number of votes cast was at least 6,000; according to a fragment of Philochorus, at least 6,000 votes had to be cast against the person who was to be...
Atheist Theophrastus (exile, later withdrawn) Theoris of Lemnos (executed; Philochorus claims that the charge against her was asebeia) Even though the above...
called Sunday "day of the Sun" (ἡμέρα Ἡλίου) after him. According to Philochorus, Athenian historian and Atthidographer of the 3rd century BC, the first...
male or female, just as the Moon is a nurturing goddess. In his Atthis, Philochorus, too, states that she is the Moon and that men sacrifice to her in women's...
Diogenes Laërtius Eumolpus was the father of Musaeus. Lastly, according to Philochorus, Eumolpus was the father of the legendary poet Musaeus by the lunar goddess...
be the mother of the legendary Greek poet Musaeus, with, according to Philochorus, the father being the legendary seer Eumolpus. Like her brother Helios...
the Argonauts, while Pindar mentions that Peleus came on the voyage, Philochorus considered Theseus to have been his companion, and an early Corinthian...
S2CID 159753653. Archived from the original on 2023-05-19. Retrieved 2023-06-05. Philochorus: Scholion to Aristophanes, Birds 1106 Kroll, John H.; Walker, Alan S...
playwright Euripides came to write his tragedies. The ancient authors Philochorus and Satyrus described Euripides as a misanthrope who avoided society...
mentioned honours, in return for her hospitality, by order of Theseus, as Philochorus relates." One of today's Athens northern suburbs, Ekáli, an affluent...
Ephorus of Cyme covered by Diodorus of Sicily rather say 50 talents and Philochorus is very precise with 44 talents. (Lapatin 2005, p. 270). Ancient authors...
appears to be Boeo's own innovation. Boeo was possibly also credited by Philochorus as the author of the Ornithogonia ("The Birth of the Birds"), who in...
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