__NOTOC__ Aethlius (

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...

: ) of

Samos Samos (, also ; el, Σάμος ) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of western Turkey, from which it is separated by the -wide Mycale Strait. It is also a separate ...

was the author of a work titled ''Samian Annals'' (), the fifth book of which is quoted by

Athenaeus Athenaeus of Naucratis (; grc, Ἀθήναιος ὁ Nαυκρατίτης or Nαυκράτιος, ''Athēnaios Naukratitēs'' or ''Naukratios''; la, Athenaeus Naucratita) was a Greek rhetorician and grammarian, flourishing about the end of th ...

, although he expresses a doubt about the genuineness of the work. Aethlius is also referred to by

Clement of Alexandria Titus Flavius Clemens, also known as Clement of Alexandria ( grc , Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς; – ), was a Christian theologian and philosopher who taught at the Catechetical School of Alexandria. Among his pupils were Origen and ...

and Eustathius, and in the

Etymologicum Magnum ''Etymologicum Magnum'' ( grc, Ἐτυμολογικὸν Μέγα, ) (standard abbreviation ''EM'', or ''Etym. M.'' in older literature) is the traditional title of a Greek lexical encyclopedia compiled at Constantinople by an unknown lexicograp ...

. His dates are uncertain, but it is probable he lived some time in the 5th or 4th century BC.Fowler 2 (oxford, 2013), p. 619; ''Brills's New Jacoby'' 536

Recent editions

* Fowler R.L., ''Early Greek Mythography. 1'' (Oxford, 2000), 29 s. and ''Early Greek Mythography. Volume 2. Commentary'' (Oxford, 2013), p. 619-620 * D'Hautcourt A., “Aethlios of Samos (536)”, in: ''Brill’s New Jacoby'', Editor in Chief: Ian Worthington (University of Missouri). Consulted online on 31 August 2016 . https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1873-5363_bnj_a536

References

Sources

* * Champion C. B., Aethlios of Samos (FGrH 536), ''The Encyclopedia of Ancient History'' 1 (2015) (DOI: 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah26154) Ancient Samians Classical-era Greek historians {{AncientGreece-writer-stub