Istros the Callimachean

Istros the Callimachean was a Greek writer, probably from Paphos. He was a pupil of Callimachus, and active in the Library of Alexandria. Seventy-seven fragments of his writings remain, mostly from his four-volume Attica, which discussed the cult, religion, and institutions of Attica in its mythical past, based largely on Atthides. According to the Suda, a 10th-century encyclopedia, he wrote both prose and verse.

Works

Istros' works exist only in fragments. Among his attested works are:

Attika
Atakta
Attikai lexeis
Argolika
Eliaka
The colonies of the Egyptians
On the city of Ptolemais
Collection of Cretan feasts
On the struggles of Helios
The manifestations of Apollo
The manifestations of Hercules
On the lyric poets
Symmikta, "Miscellany"
Hypomnemata, "Commentary"
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