Callixeinos of Rhodes

Kallixeinos of Rhodes ( Greek Καλλίξεινος ὁ Ῥόδιος ) was a Hellenistic writer and historian of the late 3rd century BC who came from Rhodes . Chr . He lived in Alexandria at the time of Ptolemy King Ptolemy IV. Philopator around or after 220 BC. Chr.

Kallixeinos wrote various writings that are now lost except for fragments. His work on Alexandria at Athenaios, which comprises at least four books, is quoted with descriptions of interesting events and objects in Alexandria. Athenaios brings from it in particular two extensive excerpts about a great pompé (procession) of the Egyptian king Ptolemaios II. Philadelphos on the occasion of a celebration of the agon for the Theoi Soteres ("saving gods") as well as about splendid shipbuildings of Ptolemaios IV., So about his splendid Nile ship Thalamegos . The aforementioned pageant of Ptolemy II is likely to have taken place in the 270s BC. And represents an example of the incomparable luxury of the Ptolemies. Callixeinos probably relied on literary sources for his descriptions of the pageant of Ptolemy II and the magnificent ships of Ptolemy IV. Pliny the Elder supplies a short excerpt from the same work by Callixeinos on the obelisk of Ptolemy II in the Arsineion.

Callixeinus is possibly identical to the arch-builder Kallixenos mentioned by Pliny .

Text output

The Fragments of the Greek Historians (FGrH), No. 627 and Brill's New Jacoby , No. 627 (with English translation and new commentary by Paul Keyser).

literature

Heinrich Swoboda : Kallixeinos. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 2, Stuttgart 1919, Sp. 1751-1754.
Otto Lendle : Introduction to Greek historiography. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1992, ISBN 3-534-10122-7 , p. 270.

Remarks

↑ Kallixeinos, FGrH No. 627, F 2 = Athenaios, Deipnosophistai , Book 5, 196 A - 203 B.
↑ Athenaios, Deipnosophistai , Book 5, 203 E - 206 C.
^ Günther Hölbl : History of the Ptolemaic Empire . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1994, ISBN 3-534-10422-6 , p. 36.
^ Heinrich Swoboda: Kallixeinos. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 2, Stuttgart 1919, col. 1751–1754 (here: col. 1152).
↑ Pliny, Naturalis historia 36, 67 f.

personal data
SURNAME	Callixeinos of Rhodes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greco-Hellenistic writer and historian
DATE OF BIRTH	around 290 BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rhodes
DATE OF DEATH	around 220 BC Chr.
Place of death	Alexandria

[1] Kallixeinos, FGrH No. 627, F 2 = Athenaios, Deipnosophistai , Book 5, 196 A - 203 B.

[2] Athenaios, Deipnosophistai , Book 5, 203 E - 206 C.

[3] Günther Hölbl : History of the Ptolemaic Empire . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1994, ISBN 3-534-10422-6 , p. 36.

[4] Heinrich Swoboda: Kallixeinos. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 2, Stuttgart 1919, col. 1751–1754 (here: col. 1152).

[5] Pliny, Naturalis historia 36, 67 f.