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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 413 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHILOCHORUS , of See also:

Athens, See also:Greek historian during the 3rd See also:century B.C., was a member of a priestly See also:family. He was a seer and interpreter of signs, and a See also:man of considerable See also:influence. He was strongly See also:anti-Macedonian in politics, and a See also:bitter opponent of See also:Demetrius Poliorcetes. When Antigonus Gonatas, the son of the latter, besieged and captured Athens (261), Philochorus was put to See also:death for having supported See also:Ptolemy Philadelphus, who had encouraged the Athenians in their resistance to See also:Macedonia. His investigations into the usages and customs of his native See also:Attica were embodied in an See also:Atthis, in seventeen books, a See also:history of Athens from the earliest times to 262 B.C. Considerable fragments are preserved in the lexicographers, scholiasts, See also:Athenaeus, and elsewhere. The See also:work was epitomized by the author himself, and later by Asinius See also:Pollio of See also:Tralles (perhaps a freedman of the famous Gains Asinius Pollio). Philochorus also wrote on oracles, See also:divination and sacrifices; the See also:mythology and religious observances of the tetrapolis of Attica; the myths of See also:Sophocles; the lives of See also:Euripides and See also:Pythagoras; the See also:foundation of See also:Salamis. He compiled See also:chronological lists of the archons and Olympiads, and made a collection of See also:Attic See also:inscriptions, the first of its See also:kind in See also:Greece. Fragments and See also:life in C. W. See also:Muller, Fragmenta historicorum graecorum, vol. i.

(1841); A. See also:

Bockh, Gesammelte kleine Schriften, vol. v. (1871), on the See also:plan of the work; J. Strenge, Quaestiones philochoreae (See also:Gottingen, 1868) ; C. See also:Wachsmuth, Einleitung in das See also:Stadium der See also:alten Geschichte (1895).

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