Cory's Ancient Fragments


Cory's Ancient Fragments is compendium of literary fragments of texts by ancient writers, collected and published by the British antiquarian and miscellaneous writer Isaac Preston Cory. The first edition was published in 1826, further followed by a revised edition containing various ancient king-lists. A further enlarged edition appeared in 1876, edited by historian E. Richmond Hodges, which added many more ancient fragments.

Fragments (1826, 1832 ed.)

Phoenician

Sanchuniathon

Babylonian

Berossus, Abydenus, Nicolaus of Damascus, Alexander Polyhistor, Eupolemus, Thallus,

Ctesias, Diodorus Siculus, Castor of Rhodes, Herodotus, Marcus Velleius Paterculus

Egyptian

Manetho, Artapanus, Diodorus Siculus, Chaeremon of Alexandria
Manetho copied down from the ancient Egyptian inscriptions a list of eight successive Persian kings, beginning with Cambyses, the son of Cyrus the Great, at the request of Ptolemy Philadelphus.
Between Cambyses' reign and Darius, the son of Hystaspes, there was an interim period whereby the Magi ruled over Persia. This important anecdote is supplied by Herodotus who wrote the Magian ruled Persia for 7 months after the death of Cambyses. Josephus, on the other hand, says they obtained the government of the Persians for a year.

Tyrian

Menander of Ephesus

Indian

Megasthenes, Cleitarchus

Carthaginian

Hanno the Navigator

Fragments (1876 ed.)

Hodges added more ancient fragments including a section of "miscellaneous fragments" of ancient writers. However, Hodge removed Cory's original fragments from neoplatonists, which he considered to be forgeries..