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PHYLARCHUS  , a

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Greek historian, who flourished during the
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time of
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Aratus, the
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strategus of the Achaean
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League, in the 3rd
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century B.C . His birthplace is variously given as
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Athens,
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Naucratis, or
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Sicyon . He was probably a native of Naucratis, and subsequently migrated to Athens . He was the author of a
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history in 28 books, covering the
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period from the expedition of
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Pyrrhus
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king of
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Epirus to
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Peloponnesus (272) to the
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death of the Spartan king Cleomenes (220) after his defeat by Antigonus Doson .
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Polybius (ii . 56-63) charges him with undue partiality for Cleomenes and unfairness towards Aratus;
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Plutarch (Aratus, 38 ), who is of the same
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opinion, did not hesitate to use him freely in his own
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biographies of
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Agis and Cleomenes . Fragments and
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life in C . W .
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Muller, Fragmenta historicorum graecorum, vol. i . (1841); monographs by J . F . Lucht (1836) and C .

A . F . Brilckner (1839) ; C .

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Wachsmuth, Einleitung in das Studium der
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alien Geschichte (1895) .

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