Cephalion
Κεφαλίων
(Κεφαλίων or Κεφαλαίων), an historian of the time of Hadrian.
Works
σύντομον ἱστορικόν
Cephalion wrote, besides other works, a σύντομον ἱστορικόν extending from the time of Ninus and Semiramis to that of Alexander the Great. It was written in the Ionic dialect, and was divided into nine books, called by the names of the Muses; and as in this he aped Herodotus, so he is reported to have aimed at resembling Homer by concealing his birth-place. Hadrian banished him to Sicily where this work was composed.
Further Information
Suidas, s.v. Photius, Phot. Bibl. 68; Euseb. Chron i. p. 30; Syncell. p. 167; Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 262, ed. Westermann.
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.