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1 st ,4 th and even 5 th century BC. 17 The reference point is first and
foremost the information taken from Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius,
where the scholiast cites the words of Lysimachos of Alexandria,
who in turn quoted the opinions of Aristoteles, Suidas, Daimachos
and Dionysius of Chalcis in his book Nostoi. It is supposed that
Lysimachos wrote around 200 BC, which means that if he knew
Aristoteles's book, it must have been written earlier. The names of
authors together with whom he was listed also provide a clue. The
first, Suidas, is identified as a local Thessalian historian. The next is
probably Daimachos of Plataea, whose work was supposedly used
by Ephorus, and who was Jacoby's most likely author of Hellenica
Oxyrynchia. 18 Since the remaining authors mentioned by Lysimachos
are generally placed in the second half of the 4 th century, it is
supposed that Aristotle also wrote at the same time. However, we
have no certainty whatsoever on this matter. Felix Jacoby, as has
been mentioned before, tried to move his lifetime to the 4 th century
BC based on the emendation of Clement of Alexandria's Stromateis.
He assumed that the authors listed together with Aristoteles
wrote before 300 BC and supposed that Aristotle the philosopher
may have used the work of Chalkideus. 19
It seems, however, that we may be relatively certain only of the
terminus ante quem of Aristoteles of Chalcis's activity, which can
be established as 2 nd century BC, i.e. the most likely time of activity
of mythographer Lysimachos of Alexandria, who had the knowledge
of his book on Euboea. 20
Finally, two questions remain to be answered: why Strabo, Plutarch
and Aelianus simultaneously quoted the works of two authors
named Aristoteles without indicating that they were two different
17 F. Susemihl, Griechischen Litteratur in der Alexandrinerzeit, Bdt. 2, Leipzig
1892, 385; E. Schwartz, Aristoteles 14, RE 2.1, 1896, 1012.
18 Daimachos FGrH 65; cf. Porphyrius (FGrH 65 T1) for the dependence of
Ephorus's text on Daimachos's work; for the author of Hellnica Oxyrynchia cf. F.
Jacoby, The Authorship of the Hellenica of Oxyrynchus, CQ n.s. 44, 1950, 2; P. R.
McKechnie, S. J. Kern (eds), Hellenica Oxyrynchia 1993, 13—14; J. Trevett,
History in [Demosthenes] 59, CQ n.s. 40, 1990, 416—17; J. B. Rives, Phrygian
Tales, GRBS 45, 2005, 225.
19 See edition of Stromata by O. Stählin (1906), L. Früchtel (1960) and P.
Descourtieux (1999), R. L. Fowler, A. Serghidou, “Aristokles (33)", Brill's New
Jacoby. Editor in Chief: Ian Worthington, (University of Missouri-Columbia). Brill,
2008. Brill Online. BNJ-contributors. 20 October 2008 http://www.brillonline.nl/
subscriber/entry?entry=bnj_a33; J. A. Davison, 'Dieuchidas of Megara', CQ n.s. 9,
1959, 218—19.
20 Jacoby FGrH 382; A. Cameron, Greek Mythography in the Roman World,
Oxford 2004, 29.
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