Charon de Lampsaque

See also: Charon

Charon de Lampsaque , historian Greek logographe. born towards 500 av J.C died after - 465 av J.C.

It had composed:

  • a History of the Persian

This work described wars between Persians and the Greeks, as well as the actions of Thémistocle. Its narrative technique seems closer to a chronicle year after year than of a true history to the manner of Hérodote. It was also known for its ethnographic digressions.

  • a History of the Ethiopia , of which it remains only little of fragments joined together by the Abbé François Sevin (Académie of the inscriptions, XIV, p. 56), by Georg Friedrich Creuzer in its Historia gracae fragm. , 1806, and by Misters Didot in their collection, 1841.

quotation of work by the old writers

  • ELIEN varied History

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