Istros the Callimachean
# Istros the Callimachean

Istros the Callimachean (Ancient Greek: Ἴστρος ὁ Καλλιμάχειος) was a Greek writer, probably from Paphos. He was a pupil of Callimachus, and active in the Library of Alexandria. Seventy-seven fragments of his writings remain, mostly from his four-volume Attica, which discussed the cult, religion, and institutions of Attica in its mythical past, based largely on Atthides. According to the Suda, a 10th-century encyclopedia, he wrote both prose and verse.

## Works

Istros' works exist only in fragments (FGrHist 334). Among his attested works are:

* Attika (Ἀττικά)
* Atakta (Ἄτακτα)
* Attikai lexeis (Ἀττικαὶ λέξεις)
* Argolika (Ἀργολικά)
* Eliaka (Ἠλιακά)
* The colonies of the Egyptians (Αἰγυπτίων ἀποικίαι)
* On the city of Ptolemais (Περὶ Πτολεμαΐδος)
* Collection of Cretan feasts (Συναγωγὴ τῶν Κρητικῶν θυσιῶν)
* On the struggles of Helios (Περὶ τῶν Ἡλίου ἀγώνων)
* The manifestations of Apollo (Ἀπόλλωνος ἐπιφάνειαι)
* The manifestations of Hercules (Ἡρακλέους ἐπιφάνειαι)
* On the lyric poets (Περὶ μελοποιῶν)
* Symmikta (Σύμμικτα), "Miscellany"
* Hypomnemata (Ὑπομνήματα), "Commentary"
* Replies to Timeus (Πρὸς Τίμαιον ἀντιγραφαί)
