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Κλειτόφων Ῥόδιος
Clitophon Rhodius
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Clitophon Rhodius was a historian from Rhodes who lived during the 1st or 2nd century CE. The sole record of his life is an entry in the 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia, the Suda, which identifies him as a Rhodian historian. No further biographical details survive.

His only known work is titled Indica, a now-lost historical account concerning India. The title places it within a popular ethnographic genre established by earlier authors like Ctesias and Megasthenes, but no fragments of its content are preserved.

Clitophon’s significance is as an attested contributor to Greco-Roman historiography on India, indicating a continued interest in the subject during the Imperial period. The complete loss of his work, however, renders him a name-only figure, representative of the many minor historians from antiquity whose writings do not survive.

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