Praxagoras of Athens

Praxagoras of Athens

Praxagoras of Athens was a pagan historian in the early 4th century AD.

He was born in Athens and wrote three historical works, which are all lost: a history of the "Kings of Athens", a history of Alexander the Great, and a panegyric biography of the emperor Constantine. A few fragments of the biography of Constantine are preserved in the "Bibliotheca" of Photius (cod. 62).

[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicigraecim01dinduoft Dindorf's 1870 Minor Greek Historians] Praxagoras's fragments start on page 439


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