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Headword: Μάναιχμος
Adler number: mu,141
Translated headword: Menaichmos, Menaechmus, Manaichmos
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Of Sikyon,[1] son of Alkibios or Alkibiades; historian. He lived under the Successors [of Alexander the Great]. He wrote a history of what happened[2] under Alexander the Macedonian.[3]
Greek Original:
Μάναιχμος, Σικυώνιος, υἱὸς Ἀλκιβίου ἢ Ἀλκιβιάδου, ἱστορικός: γέγονε δὲ ἐπὶ τῶν διαδόχων. ἔγραψεν ἱστορίαν τὴν κατὰ τὸν Μακεδόνα Ἀλέξανδρον.
Notes:
Late C4 BC. See generally OCD(3) p.956, under Menaechmus(1); FGrH 131. NB: the Suda manuscripts give his name here, incorrectly, as Ma-.
[1] In the NE Peloponnese, Greece.
[2] τὴν is transmitted; Gaisford proposed τῶν , on the analogy of iota 126.
[3] For other works, including a history of his native city (fragmentarily extant on papyrus: P.Oxy.11.1365), see the OCD article.
Keywords: biography; chronology; historiography; history
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 September 2001@07:42:26.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (modified headwords, set status) on 1 June 2003@04:48:34.
David Whitehead (added note) on 1 June 2003@05:56:58.
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