Argolic Histories by Anaxicrates the Historian

Name: Argolic Histories
Author: Anaxicrates the Historian

Period: Ἑλληνιστική Hellenistic

Dialect: Ἀττική Attic

Domain: Ἱστορία History

Genre: Ἱστοριογραφία Historiography

The Argolic Histories is a lost Greek historical work attributed to Anaxicrates. Preserved only in three brief fragments transmitted by the sixth-century CE lexicographer Stephanus of Byzantium, it was a local history of the Argolid region in the northeastern Peloponnese. The surviving excerpts indicate a focus on local genealogy and mythology, such as the lineage of the early Argive king Phoroneus, and on regional topography, referencing places like Mideia and Lyrkeia and their heroic associations, including the hero Perseus. The title may suggest the work was an epitome or a collection of excerpts from a larger, now-lost account. As a fragmentary example of Greek local history, or horography, its primary value lies in its contribution to later antiquarian scholarship on the mythological traditions and historical geography of the Argolid.

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Σχόλια εἰς Εὐριπίδην Ὦ φίλταθʼ Ἕκτορ ... μαστὸν ἤδη πολλάκις νόθοισι σοῖς Τοῦτο παρʼ ἱστορίαν φασὶν εἰρῆσθαι· μὴ γὰρ ἱστορεῖσθαι Ἕκτορι ἐξ ἄλλης γυναικὸς γεγενῆσθαι υἱούς. Ἀπερίσκηπτοι δέ εἰσιν οἱ ταῦτα λέγοντες. Ἀναξικράτης γὰρ ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ τῶν Ἀργολικῶν οὕτω λέγει· «Οἱ δʼ ἀμφʼ ἑνέαο καὶ Σκαμάνδριον τὸν Ἕκτορος υἱὸν καὶ πρεσβύτερον Ἦσαν δὲ αὐτῷ οὗτος μὲν νόθος, ὃς ϊ κατελήφθη καὶ ἀπόλλυται. Οὗτοι δὲ διασώζονται. Σκαμάνδριος δὲ ἀφίκετο εἰς Ταναΐδα, Αἰνείου δὲ Ἀγχίσης ὁ πατὴρ ϊ καὶ ἄλλοι τινὲς, παῖδες αὐτῶν, καὶ Ἀγέστας, οἰκεῖος ὢν Ἀγχίσῃ, καὶ Αἰνείας εἰς Δάρδανον μεταπίπτονται.»

Σχόλια εἰς Εὐριπίδην Περὶ δὲ τῆς Κρέοντος θυγατρὸς οὐχ ὁμοφωνοῦσι τῷ Εὐριπίδῃ οἱ συγγραφεῖς· Κλειτόδημος μὲν γὰρ Κρέουσάν φησι καλεῖσθαι, γήμασθαι δὲ Ξούθῳ, Ἀναξικράτης δὲ Γλαύκην.

Στράβων Τοῦ δὲ Ἀραβίου κόλπου τὸ παρὰ τὴν Ἀραβίαν πλευρὰν ἀρχομένοις ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἐλανίτου μυχοῦ, καθάπερ οἱ περὶ Ἀλέξανδρον ἀνέγραψαν καὶ Ἀναξικράτη, μυρίων καὶ τετραχισχιλίων σταδίων ἐστίν· εἴρηται δὲ ἐπὶ πλέον.

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