Amelesagoras (Ancient Greek: Ἀμελησαγόρας) or Melesagoras (Μελησαγόρας, as he is called by others) of Chalcedon, was an early Greek historian. The histories of Gorgias and Eudemus of Naxos both borrowed from him.
Maximus Tyrius speaks of a Melesagoras, a native of Eleusis, and Antigonus of Carystus of an Amelesagoras of Athens, the latter of whom wrote an account of Attica; these persons are probably the same, and perhaps also the same as Amelesagoras of Chalcedon.
References
- Smith, William (1867). "Amelesagoras". In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 142.
- Clement of Alexandria, Stromata vi. p.629, a
- Scholiast on Euripides, on Alcestis 2
- Bibliotheca iii. 10. § 3 where the scholar Christian Gottlob Heyne has substituted Μελησαγορας for Μνησαγορας)
- Maximus Tyrius, Serm. 38. § 3
- Antigonus of Carystus, Hist. Mirab. c. 12
- Gerardus Vossius, De Historicis Graecis p. 22, ed. Westermann
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Amelesagoras". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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