Antigonus of Carystus

Who is Antigonus of Carystus?

Antigonus of Carystus, Greek writer on various subjects, flourished in the 3rd century BC. After some time spent at Athens and in travelling, he was summoned to the court of Attalus I of Pergamum. His chief work is the Successions of Philosophers drawn from personal knowledge, with considerable fragments preserved in Athenaeus and Diogenes Laërtius. We still possess his Historiae Mirabiles, a paradoxographical work chiefly extracted from the Περὶ θαυμασίων ἀκουσμάτων attributed to Aristotle and the Θαυμάσια of Callimachus. It is doubtful whether he is identical with the sculptor who, according to Pliny, wrote books on his art.