Χάρων
Charon, Kharon
Translated by David Whitehead26 Nov 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Of Lampsakos;1 son of Pythokles; lived during the reign of the first [King] Dareios, in the 79th Olympiad; but rather in the time of the Persian Wars, the 75th Olympiad.2 A historian, he wrote Ethiopian Histories; Persian Histories in 2 books; Greek Histories in 4 books; Concerning Lampsakos in 2; Libyan Histories; Chronicles of the Lampsakenes in 4 books; Prytaneis or Archons of the Lakedaimonians - these are annals; Foundations of Cities in 2 books; Cretan Histories in 3 books - including the laws laid down by Minos; [and] Voyage past the Pillars of Herakles