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Encyclopedia Britannica



CLEITARCHUS

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 481 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CHR-CLI
CLEITARCHUS , one of the historians of Alexander the
Great
 , son of Deinon, also an historian, was possibly a native of
Egypt
 , or at least spent a considerable time at the
court
  of
Ptolemy
  Lagus. Quintilian (Instit. x. 1. 74) credits him with more ability than trustworthiness, and Cicero (Brutus, 11) accuses him of giving a fictitious account of the death of Themistocles. But there is no doubt that his history was very popular, and much used by Diodorus Siculus, Quintus Curtius,
Justin
  and
Plutarch
 , and the authors of the Alexander romances. His unnatural and exaggerated style became proverbial.
The fragments, some thirty in number, chiefly preserved in Aelian and Strabo, will be found in C. Muller's Scriptores Rerum Alexandri Magni (in the Didot Arrian, 1846) ; monographs by C. Raun, De Clitarcho Diodori, Curtii, Justini auctore (1868), and F. Reuss, " Hellenistische Beitrage " in Rhein. Mus. lxiii. (1908), pp. 58-78.


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