Agathosthenes

Agathosthenes (polytonic|Ἀγαθοσθένης) was a Greek historian or philosopher of uncertain date,Citation
last = Schmitz
first = Leonhard
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contribution = Agathosthenes
editor-last = Smith
editor-first = William
title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
volume = 1
pages = 66
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place = Boston
year = 1867
contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0075.html ] who is referred to by Tzetzes as his authority in matters connect­ed with geography. [John Tzetzes, "ad Lycophr." 704, 1021. "Chil." vii. 645] There is mention of a work of Agathosthenes called "Asiatica Carmina", [Germanicus, "in Arat. Phaen." 24] where some writers read the name "Aglaosthenes"; [Thomas Gale, "Notae in Parthen." p. 125, &c.] for Aglaosthenes or Aglosthenes, who is by some considered to be the same as Agathosthenes, wrote a work on the history of Naxos, of which nothing is extant, but which was much used by ancient writers. [Hyginus, "Poeticon astronomicon" ii, 16] [Eratosthenes, "Catasterismi" ii. 27] [Pollux, ix. 83] [Athen. iii. p. 78] [Pliny the Elder, "Naturalis Historia" iv. 22]

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