Antigonus of Carystus

Antigonus of Carystus (; ; ), a Greek writer on various subjects, flourished in the 3rd century BCE. After some time spent at Athens and travelling, he was summoned to the court of Attalus I (241 BCE–197 BCE) of Pergamum. His chief work is the Successions of Philosophers drawn from personal knowledge, with considerable fragments preserved in Athenaeus and Diogenes Laërtius. His work ' (', "Collection of Wonderful Tales"), a paradoxographical work chiefly extracted from the ' (On Marvellous Things Heard) attributed to Aristotle and the ' ("Thaumasia") of Callimachus, survived to modernity. It is doubtful whether he is identical to the sculptor who, according to Pliny (Nat. Hist. xxxiv. 19), wrote books on his art.

References

• Text in Otto Keller, Rerum Naturalium Scriptores Graeci Minores, I. (1877).
• Reinhold Köpke, De Antigono Carystio (1862).
• Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, "A. von Karystos," in Philologische Untersuchungen, IV. (1881).
• Kai Brodersen, Antigonos von Karystos. Sammlung sonderbarer Geschichten (Greek and German), Speyer 2023, ISBN 978-3-939526-57-5.