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.