Phlegon of Tralles
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Phlegon, of Tralles in Asia Minor, Greek writer and freedman of the emperor Hadrian, lived in the 2nd century.
His chief work was the Olympiads, an historical compendium in sixteen books, from the 1st down to the 229th Olympiad (776 BC to AD 137), of which several chapters are preserved in Photius and Syncellus. Two small works by him are extant:
- On Marvels, containing some stories about ghosts, prophecies by heads, monstrous births (Siamese twins), hemaphrodites and giant skeletons.
- On Long-lived Persons, a list of Italians who had passed the age of 100, taken from the Roman censuses.
Other works ascribed to Phlegon by Suidas are a description of Sicily, a work on the Roman festivals in three books, and a topography of Rome.
[edit] References
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
- Karl Otfried Müller, Frag. hist. graec., iii
- O Keller, Rerum naturalium scriptores, i. (1877)
- H Diels, "Phlegons Androgynenorakel" in Sibyllinische Bücher (1890).
