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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 298 (v. 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The latter part of the account of Suidas, namely that Philochorus was put to death by Antigonus, there is no reason to question.
		These few facts are all that we know of the life of Philochorus, but they are sufficient to show that he was a person of some importance at Athens.
		Philochorus seems to have been a diligent and accurate writer, and is frequently referred to by the scholiasts, lexicographers, as well as other later authors.
	ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2632.html (860 words)

	Philochorus -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Philochorus, of (The capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess)) Athens, Greek historian during the 3rd century BC, was a member of a priestly family.
		When (Click link for more info and facts about Antigonus Gonatas) Antigonus Gonatas, the son of the latter, besieged and captured Athens (261), Philochorus was put to death for having supported (Click link for more info and facts about Ptolemy Philadelphus) Ptolemy Philadelphus, who had encouraged the Athenians in their resistance to Macedonia.
		He compiled chronological lists of the (Click link for more info and facts about archon) archons and (One of the 4-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC) Olympiads, and made a collection of Attic inscriptions, the first of its kind in Greece.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/P/Ph/Philochorus.htm (243 words)

	Non-archaeological evidence for the earliest bust of Socrates
		Whereas for the so-called Type B the Lysippean statue can be established as the archetype, for Type A no archetype could be found, especially since the Lysippean statue soon became the standard depiction of Socrates.
		In favour of that view one could state that the archetype of Type A should be earlier than the Lysippean statue since the latter soon became so famous that it is hard to imagine how a competing image type could evolve.
		So it is possible that the bust described by Philochorus in the citation is the archetype of the Type-A-images of Socrates.
	www.apaclassics.org /AnnualMeeting/04mtg/abstracts/Speyer.html (619 words)

	Classics Log 9304 - Message Number 505 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		From now on, it seems, the column numbers will be increased by 4 four the ZPE 1982 publication, and by 3 for the current numbering which counts the Heraclitus col.
		The import of which is that this text could now be considered a true literary text which had a relatively wide audience, rather than the idle scribblings of one person.
		(Philochorus was born too late to be the author.
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/CLA-L/Older/log93/9304/9304.505.html (387 words)

	Context: Philochorus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He seems to have exercised critical judgement when choosing his sources; he approved of his predecessor Androtion, but was critical of the historian Demon and even devoted a book to pointing out Demon’s faults.
		Based on the fragments that survive, we can tell that Philochorus was familiar with Herodotus and Thucydides.
		Christopher W. Blackwell, “Philochorus,” in C. Blackwell, ed., Dêmos: Classical Athenian Democracy (A. Mahoney and R. Scaife, edd., The Stoa: a consortium for scholarly publication in the humanities [www.stoa.org]) edition of April 8, 2003.
	www.stoa.org /projects/demos/author_Philochorus (212 words)

	PHILOCHORUS - LoveToKnow Article on PHILOCHORUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		His investigations into the usages and customs of his native Attica were embodied in an Atthis, in seventeen books, a history of Athens from the earliest times ;o 262 B.C. Considerable fragments are preserved in the exicographers, scholiasts, Athenaeus, and elsewhere.
		Philochorus also wrote on oracles, divination and sacrifices; the mythology and religious observances of the tetrapolis of Attica; the myths of Sophocles; the lives of Euripides and Pythagoras; the foundation of Salamis.
		To properly cite this PHILOCHORUS article in your work, copy the complete reference below:
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PH/PHILOCHORUS.htm (244 words)

	Ostracism at Athens
		The practice of ostracism: Philochorus explains Ostracism in his Book III, sets it down as follows: "Ostracism is as follows: The Demos takes a vote before the 8th Prytany, as to whether it seemed best to hold an ostracism.
		When the response is positive, the Agora is fenced off with barricades; ten entrances were left open, through which they entered according to Phyle and deposited their potsherds, keeping face-down what they had written.
		After him the practice was abandoned, which had begun when Kleisthenes was legislating, when he expelled the tyrants, so that he might toss out their friends as well.
	www.csun.edu /~hcfll004/ostracis.html (1671 words)

	AllRefer.com - Philochorus (Classical Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Philochorus is probably the best known of the many chroniclers of events in Athens and surrounding Attica.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Philocho.html (136 words)

	philochorus - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
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		Philochorus : Columbia Encyclopedia, Six Edition [home, info]
		PHILOCHORUS : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
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	The Internet Classics Archive \| Theseus by Plutarch
		Demon writes that Taurus, the chief captain of Minos, was slain by Theseus at the mouth of the port, in a naval combat as he was sailing out for Athens.
		But Philochorus gives us the story thus: That at the setting forth of the yearly games by King Minos, Taurus was expected to carry away the prize, as he had done before; and was much grudged the honour.
		His character and manners made his power hateful, and he was accused moreover of too near familiarity with Pasiphae, for which reason, when Theseus desired the combat, Minos readily complied.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/theseus.html (5406 words)

	Ostracism
		The difference with an ordinary exile is that the man who was ostracized remained a citizen, had to leave the city for a fixed period of ten years, did not lose his possessions, and could be recalled - which happened quite often.
		Plutarch of Chaeronea says that a grand total of 6,000 potsherds had to be cast; Philochorus, however, states that the exiled man had to receive 6,000 votes.
		Although the practice was intended to protect the democratic procedures against charismatic politicians, it appears that it was often used by conservatives who already had great influence against politicians who challenged their positions.
	www.livius.org /on-oz/ostracism/ostracism.html (559 words)

	Euripides and His Tragedies
		While taking a lively interest in the questions of the day, he lived a retired and somewhat misanthropic life, happy in the possession of a valuable library, and passing most of his time in dramatic composition.
		As Philochorus relates, most of his tragedies were composed in a dark cave in the isle of Salamis, which was an object of curiosity many years after his death.
		Euripides was a voluminous writer, the number of his plays being variously stated at from seventy-five to ninety-two, including several satyric dramas.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/euripides001.html (1947 words)

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		Philochorus also says, that Poseidon was worshipped as a physician in Tenos; and that Kronos settled in Sicily, and there was buried.
		Nor need you doubt respecting the images of Zeus and Apollo at Patara, in Lycia, which Phidias executed, as well as the lions that recline with them; and if, as some say, they were the work of Bryxis, I do not dispute,--you have in him another maker of images.
		Furthermore, the statues nine cubits in height of Poseidon and Amphitrite, worshipped in Tenos are the work of Telesius the Athenian, as we are told by Philochorus.
	www.ewtn.com /library/PATRISTC/ANF2-6.TXT (15768 words)

	Demosthenes, from Lives of the Ten Orators, at Peitho's Web
		Which last decree had like to have been retracted, Diodotus and Aeschines endeavoring to prove it to be contrary to the laws; but he defended himself so well against their allegations, that he overcame all difficulties, his enemies not having the fifth part of the votes of the judges.
		So he was judicially cited by Hyperides, Pytheus, Menesaechmus, Himeraeus, and Patrocles, who prosecuted him so severely as to cause him to be condemned in the court of Areopagus; and being condemned, he went into exile, not being able to pay fivefold; for he was accused of receiving thirty talents.
		Some say this writing was found: "Demosthenes to Antipater, Greeting." Philochorus tells us that he died by drinking of poison; and Satyrus the historiographer will have it, that the pen was poisoned with which he wrote his epistle, and putting it into his mouth, soon after he tasted it he died.
	classicpersuasion.org /pw/plu10or/pludemos.htm (2358 words)

	PHILOCHORUS - Online Information article about PHILOCHORUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He was a seer and interpreter of signs, and a See also:
		When Antigonus Gonatas, the son of the latter, besieged and captured Athens (261), Philochorus was put to See also:
		Ptolemy Philadelphus, who had encouraged the Athenians in their resistance to See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PER_PIG/PHILOCHORUS.html (253 words)

	Contents of JHS 121 (2001)
		He is a free agent, who disregards political pressure and is exclusively compelled by the rules that apply to him as researcher and truthful recorder.
		Lara O'Sullivan: Philochorus, Pollux, and the nomophulakes of Demetrius of Phalerum
		The duties of Demetrius’ officials have been surmised from an entry on nomophulakes in the Atthis of Philochorus (FGrHist 328 F64), which lists their central functions as the supervision of ma-gistrates and the prevention of illegal resolutions by the assembly and council.
	www.hellenicsociety.org.uk /issues/JHS121.htm (2686 words)

	259 B.C. - events and references
		General comments on the life and writings of Philochorus.
		The historian Philochorus is put to death by Antigonus for supporting Ptolemaeus.
		A saying of the poet Theocritus, addressed to a thief.
	www.attalus.org /bc3/year259.html (263 words)

	The Mighty Bull of the Two Lands - Culture Bringer
		To them he gave a skin full of wine as a gift and bade them spread the use of it in all the other lands." (130)
		Philochorus wrote, "Amphictyon, King of Athens, learned from Dionysos the art of mixing wine and was the first to mix it.
		So it was that men came to stand upright, drinking wine mixed, whereas before they were bent double by use of unmixed wine." (FGrH 328 F 173) And there are numerous references - too many to recount here - to Dionysos instituting the cultivation of the vine in various localities within the Greek world.
	www.wargoddess.net /greek/rel/diosiris/culture.php (330 words)

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		And after 70 years of captivity, Cyrus became king of the Persians at the time of the 55th Olympiad, as may be ascertained from the Bibliothecae of Diodorus and the histories of Thallus and Castor, and also from Polybius and Phlegon, and others besides these, who have made the Olympiads a subject of study.
		Philochorus, however, affirms that Ogygus, Actaeus, or whatever fictitious name is adduced never existed.
		Notice: JA is careful to make sure his reader KNOWS where the uncertainty of the mythological lies, even citing the specific scholar who takes a very strong stance.
	www.christian-thinktank.com /jrthal.html (3425 words)

	Perseus Lookup Tool (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		After the last half of the fourth century A.D., chronicles of this kind were composed by a number of writers (Atthidographi), among whom Androtion and Philochorus (q.v.) deserve special mention.
		Regular collections of Greek inscriptions were made by Philochorus (B.C. 300), Polemo (hence called (11.79)
		Home of the Marathonian Tetrapolis (Philochorus FGH 328 F 94, 109), it is best known as the site of the famous battle of 490 B.C. (), though Peisistratos also landed there ca.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /cgi-bin/vor?target=en,1&collection=Any&lookup=Philochorus&formentry=1&template=&searchText=&alts=1&extern=1&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0002;2394;65535&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0062;1576;13130675&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0039;923;817026&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0040;1139;1928164&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0004;4048;5806160&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0048;918;124462&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0041;924;4501079&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0042;919;331721&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0043;965;4817651&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0054;2031;2570557&doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006;5253;9153903&group=work&.cgifields=alts&.cgifields=group&.cgifields=extern&.cgifields=type (133 words)

	PHEIDIAS - Online Information article about PHEIDIAS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A.D. Plutarch he was made an See also:
		Philochorus, as quoted by a scholiast on See also:
		Zeus for the Eleans, and was afterwards put to death by them.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PER_PIG/PHEIDIAS.html (1147 words)

	PHILOCHORUS - Encyclopedia Britannica - PHILOCHORUS - JCSM's Study Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		When Antigonus Gonatas, the son of the latter, besieged and captured Athens (261), Philochorus was put to death for having supported
		Philochorus also wrote on oracles, divination and sacrifices; the mythology and religious observances of the tetrapolis of Attica; the myths of Sophocles; the lives of Euripides and
		He compiled chronological lists of the archons and Olympiads, and made a collection of Attic
	jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/PER_PIG/PHILOCHORUS.html (352 words)

	Cicero Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But Philochorus writeth, that Scirus the SALAMINIAN gave to Theseus a master called Nausitheus, and another marriner to tackle the sayles, who was called Phaas: bicause the ATHENIANS at that time were not greatly practised to the sea.
		And this did Scirus, for that one of the children on whom the lott fell was his nephewe: and thus muche the chappells doe testifie, which Theseus buylt afterwardes in honour of Nausitheus, and of Phaas, in the village of Phalerus, joyning to the temple of Scirus.
		Thus Theseus being delivered of this captivitie, returned to ATHENS where his friends were not altogether kept under by his enemies: and at his returne he dyd dedicate to Hercules all the temples, which the cittie had before caused to be built in his owne honour.
	www.stoics.com /plutarch_1.html (16157 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Nicias by Plutarch
		But it so fell out with Nicias, that he had not at this time a skilful diviner with him; his former habitual adviser who used to moderate much of his superstition, Stilbides, had died a little before.
		For, in fact, this prodigy, as Philochorus observes, was not unlucky for men wishing to fly, but on the contrary very favourable; for things done in fear require to be hidden, and the light is their foe.
		Nor was it usual to observe signs in the sun or moon more than three days, as Autoclides states in his Commentaries.
	classics.mit.edu /Plutarch/nicias.html (6837 words)

	Euripides - Plays - Testimonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		But Philochorus says that Euripides died before Socrates." - Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Eminent Philosophers 2.44 (Philochorus was right!)
		His work Lives of the Eminent Philosophers preserves information and quotations from earlier writers whose works have not otherwise survived, including Philochorus.
		The Greek word hypothesis is used for a synopsis of a play, sometimes containing information about the original production circumstances.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /classics/staff/LSF/Euripides/testimonia.html (1671 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: 11th Brittanica: Euripides
		And they sought to free his text from the numerous interpolations which even then had resulted from his popularity on the stage.
		Philochorus (about 306-260 B.C.), best known for his Atthis, dealt, in his treatise on Euripides, especially with the mythology of the plays, From 300 B.C. to the age of Augustus.a long series of critics busied themselves with this poet.
		At Rome Euripides was early made known through the translations of Annius and the freer adaptations of Pacuvius.
	www.fordham.edu /HALSALL/ancient/eb11-euripides.html (7665 words)

	Theseus - The Athenian Adventurer
		Plutarch gives in excruciating detail some of these other accounts, but they have been omitted here.
		Philochorus says that the Athenians were to be the slaves of the winner in the games of King Minos.
		Taurus, captain of the Cretans, was expected to win, but neither Minos nor anyone else were pleased with this prospect because Taurus was a cruel and arrogant man. Theseus challenged Taurus to a single combat, and Minos complied.
	www.e-classics.com /theseus.htm (4493 words)

	Plutarch's Lives, trans by A. H. Clough by Plutarch
		But Philochorus says that the Cretans will by no means allow the truth
		Philochorus says Theseus had sent him by Scirus, from Salamis,
		But Philochorus gives us the story thus: That at the setting forth of
	encyclopediaindex.com /b/plivs10.htm (16626 words)

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