FILOHOR (Philochoros)

Filohor; Philochoros, from Athens, ca. 345-260 years. BC. e., attidograf. For many years, performing in Athens on the position of the priest-prophet (g. mantis). Apparently, was executed by order of Antigonus Gonata. The greatest product of F. was Attida (Atthis; fr.) - the history of Attica in 17 books, six of which covered the 1000-year period from the first kings of Athens to 317 g. BC. e., and 11 others - 50 years of the life of the F. F. resulted in Attide the facts of the field of literature and art. Many surviving fragments belong to the first 4 books. They are written in simple style is not rhetorical. High estimation of his work F. also bound to chronological order of its construction, based on lists of the Athenian kings and archons, as well as his vast erudition and curiosity. F. used the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Eforie and Teopompa, but he managed to preserve the independence of judgments. He was also the author of Attic inscriptions (Epigrammata Attika), probably the first known collection of inscriptions. F. also wrote many other works are not extant historical and literary-historical content, . example, . On divinations (Peri mantikes), . On the Athenian mysteries (Peri mysterion ton Athenesi), . On Athenian agones (Peri ton Athenesin agonon), . No casualties (Peri thysion), . About the mythology of Sophocles (Peri ton Sophokleus mython), . About Euripides (Peri Euripidu) and others.,