Xenagoras () was a Greek historian from Heraclea PonticaSuda Encyclopedia, nu.598 quoted by Dionysius of Halicarnassus,Dionysius of Halicarnassus, i. 72, section 5 from whom we learn that Xenagoras wrote that Odysseus and Circe had three sons, Rhomos, Anteias, and Ardeas, who founded the three cities which were called by their names. He wrote a work titled Chronicle (Χρόνοι),Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes iv. 262, 264Harpocration s.v. Κραυαλλίδαι and another on islands (Περὶ νήσων).Etymol. s.v. ΣφήκειαJohn Tzetzes, On Lycophron 447Harpocration s.v. ΧύτροιStephanus of Byzantium s.v. ΧύτροιGerardus Vossius, de Historicis Graecis p. 508, ed. WestermannHenry Fynes Clinton, Fasti Hellenici vol. iii. p. 566 The 5th-century AD writer Macrobius also refers to the third book of the history of Xenagoras.Macrobius, v. 19
This Xenagoras was possibly the same Xenagoras as father of the historian Nymphis.
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