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Diodotus

Διόδοτος

(Διόδοτος), literary.

1. Of ERYTHRAE, was, according to Athenaeus (x. p. 434), the author of ἐφημερίδες Ἀλεξάνδρου, from which we may infer that he was a contemporary of Alexander the Great.

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.