Chaereas
- Textgroups:
- fhg0138
- CITE id:
- urn:cite:perseus:author.1753
- Alt id:
- fhg0138
- Name:
- Chaereas
- Alt names:
- Χαιρέας
- Field of activity:
- Historian
- Notes:
- Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: "Chaereas, 2, a historian, so miscalled, of whom Polybius, speaking of his account of
the proceedings at Rome when the news arrived of the capture of Saguntum in u. 100.219, says that his writings contained, not history,
but gossip fit for barbers' shops, κουρεακῆς καὶ πανδήμου λαλιᾶς. (Plb. 3.20.)....."
Brill's New Pauly: "Chaereas, Historian of Hannibal, c. 200 BC (?)...."
- Author info:
- Smith's Dictionary
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