Antigonus of Carystus°
ANTIGONUS OF CARYSTUS°
ANTIGONUS OF CARYSTUS ° (fl. 240 b.c.e.), an Athenian biographer and bronze-worker who labored under Attalus I at Pergamum. He cites Callimachus, who, in turn, cites Zenophilus (Xenophilus), on the phenomena of the Dead Sea.
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