Antisthenes
Ἀντισθένης
(Ἀντισθένης), of RHODES, a Greek historian who lived about the year B. C. 200. He took an active part in the political affairs of his country, and wrote a history of his own time, which, notwithstanding its partiality towards his native island, is spoken of in terms of high praise by Polybius. (16.14, &c.; comp. D. L. 6.19.) Plutarch (de Fluv. 22) mentions an Antisthenes who wrote a work called Meleagris, of which the third book is quoted; and Pliny (Plin. Nat. 36.12) speaks of a person of the same name, who wrote on the pyramids; but whether they are the same person as the Rhodian, or two distinct writers, or the Ephesian Antisthenes mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (6.19), cannot be decided.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.