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Callixenus of Rhodes
Callixenus
of
Rhodes
was a
Hellenistic
author
from Rhodes. He was a
contemporary
of
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
,
Ptolemy III Euergetes
and
Ptolemy IV Philopator
. He wrote two works, both of which are
lost
.
Works
Peri
Alexandreias
- A
work
consisting of
four books
, and
referenced
much by
Athenaeus
. It contained the main account of the
Tessarakonteres
.
An
untitled
catalogue
of
painters
and
sculptors
, of which
Sopater
, in the
twelfth
book
of his
Eclogae
had made an
abridgement
.
