Νύμφις

Nymphis

Translated by David Whitehead11 Dec 2000Vetting: high4 revisions

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[Genitive] Nymphidos, son of Xenagoras, of Pontic Herakleia, an historian. [He wrote] 24 books On Alexander and the Diadochoi and the Epigonoi,1 and 13 books On Herakleia; it covered events after the Epigonoi as far as the fall of the tyrants and as far as the third Ptolemy.2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Νύμφις, Νύμφιδος, Ξεναγόρου, Ἡρακλεώτης ἐκ Πόντου, ἱστορικός. Περὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ τῶν διαδόχων καὶ ἐπιγόνων βιβλία κδʹ, Περὶ Ἡρακλείας βιβλία ιγʹ· ἔχει δὲ μέχρι τῆς καθαιρέσεως τῶν τυράννων τὰ μετὰ τοὺς ἐπιγόνους καὶ μέχρι τοῦ τρίτου Πτολεμαίου.

Betacode
*nu/mfis, *nu/mfidos, *cenago/rou, *(hraklew/ths e)k *po/ntou, i(storiko/s. *peri\ *)aleca/ndrou kai\ tw=n diado/xwn kai\ e)pigo/nwn bibli/a kd#, *peri\ *(hraklei/as bibli/a ig#: e)/xei de\ me/xri th=s kaqaire/sews tw=n tura/nnwn ta\ meta\ tou\s e)pigo/nous kai\ me/xri tou= tri/tou *ptolemai/ou.

Notes (2)

  1. c.310-245 BCE; OCD4 s.v.
  2. 1That is, Alexander, his immediate successors, and their immediate successors. ↩
  3. 2Having two lower termini like this perhaps means that the work at first stopped in 280 BCE (the end of an eighty-four-year period of tyranny in Herakleia) but was later extended to 246, when the reign of Ptolemy III Euergetes in Egypt began. ↩

References


FGrH 432 and (for the epitome by Memnon) 434
S.M. Burstein, Outpost of Hellenism: the emergence of Heraclea on the Black Sea (University of California Press 1974) pp.1-4 and passim

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Revision history4 revisions · last 7 Aug 2014
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
  5. Translated — David Whitehead

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