ANTIGONUS OF CARYSTUS (in

Euboea)  , Greek writer on various subjects, flourished in the 3rd century B.C . After some time spent at Athens and in travelling, he was summoned to the court of Attalus I . (241–197) of Pergamum . His chief work was the Lives of Philosophers drawn from personal knowledge, of which considerable fragments are preserved in Athenaeus and Diogenes Laertius . We still possess his Collection of W enderful Tales, chiefly extracted from the eauµaaia 'Axco(r ara attributed to Aristotle and the eavµaaua of Callimachus . It is doubtful whether he is identical with the sculptor who, according to Pliny (Nat . Hist. xxxiv . 19), wrote books on his art . Text in Keller, Rerum Naturalium Scriplores Graeci Minorcan i . (1877); see Kopke, De Antigono Carystio (1862) ; Wilamowitz-Mi llendorff, " A. von Karystos," in Philologische Untersuchungen, iv . (1881) .