Philochorus

Philochorus in Wikipedia

Philochorus, of Athens, Greek historian during the 3rd century BC, (d. circa 261 BCE), was a member of a priestly family. He was a seer and interpreter of signs, and a man of considerable influence. He was strongly anti-Macedonian in politics, and a bitter opponent of Demetrius Poliorcetes. When Antigonus Gonatas, the son of the latter, besieged a...

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Philochŏrus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

（Φιλόχορος). A Greek historian, living at Athens between 306 and 260. As an upholder of national liberty he was among the bitterest opponents of Demetrius Poliorcetes and of his son Antigonus Gonatas, who put him to death after the conquest of Athens. Of his works, the Atthis was a history of Athens from the earliest times to B.C. 262, in seventeen...

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