Late Antique Historiography

On the kings of Athens

Title(s):
  • On the kings of Athens
  • Περὶ τῶν ᾽Αθήνησι βασιλευσάντων
    (Peri tōn Athēnēsi basileusantōn, On those who have reigned in Athens)
Author:
Period covered:
Mythical past of Athens
Language:
Greek
State of Preservation:
Fragmentary
Genre:
  • Secular history (local history)
Remarks:
The author wrote the work in Ionic dialect. Smith (2007: 374) supposes that Praxagoras used Plutarch's Life of Theseus.
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Bibliography:
  • P. Janiszewski (2006) The missing link: Greek pagan historiography in the second half of the third century and in the fourth century A.D. Warsaw.
  • R.B.E. Smith (2007) 'A lost historian of Alexander "descended from Alexander", and read by Julian? Praxagoras of Athens reviewed in the light of Attic epigraphy'. Historia 56.3: 356-380.