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Ἀκέσανδρος ὁ ἱστορικός
Akesandros the Historian
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Akesandros the Historian was a Greek historian of the Hellenistic period, likely active in the 1st century BCE. No biographical details survive. He is known solely through fragmentary citations by later authors.

His only attested work is the Libyka or On Libya, a treatise on the history and geography of North Africa. It survives in fragments, primarily preserved within Athenaeus’s Deipnosophistae.

Akesandros is a minor figure whose significance lies in his contribution to Hellenistic ethnography. His fragments provide valuable details on Libyan geography, myths, and customs, such as the myth of the giant Antaios. His work exemplifies the period’s scholarly effort to catalog the known world.

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Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ τῶν Κυρηναϊκῶν Μύθων
Fragments on Cyrenean Myths
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Ἀποσπάσματα περὶ Μυθολογικῆς Γενεαλογίας
Fragments on Mythological Genealogy
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