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Encyclopedia Britannica



PHLEGON

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 447 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG
PHLEGON , of
Tralles
  in
Asia
 
Minor
 , Greek writer and freed-man of the emperor Hadrian, flourished in the and century A.D. His
chief
 
work
  was the Olympiads, an historical compendium in sixteen books, from the 1st down to the 229th Olympiad (776 B.C. to A.D. 137), of which several chapters are preserved in Photius and
Syncellus
 . Two small works by him are extant: On Marvels, containing some ridiculous stories about ghosts, prophecies and monstrous births, but instructive as regards ancient superstitions ;-On
Long
 -lived Persons, a
list
  of Italians who had passed the age of ioo, taken from the Roman censuses. Other works ascribed to Phlegon by Suidas are a description of Sicily, a
work
  on the Roman festivals in three books, and a topography of Rome.
Fragments in C. Muller, Frag. hist. graec. iii.; ofthe Marvels and
Long
 -lived in O. Keller, Rerum naturalium scriptores, i. (1877); see also H. Diels, " Phlegons Androgynenorakel " in Sibyllinische Bldlter (1890).


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