On the Classical Authorities for Ancient Art. 361 ject, I may add, is attributed by Athenaeus, xin. 594, to one Menetor. We find in Fulgentius, in. 3, that a certain Anaximenes wrote a work on ancient paintings. Whether he be the same as the author if author of the 'P^ropt*)} irpos 'AXegavdpov, whom Vossius wrongly distinguishes from the historian, is matter for conjecture. Athenaeus quotes largely from a work on Alexandria by a Rhodian named Callixenus. Of those quotations I shall hereafter avail myself. For the present, I have only to state that they fix the date of their author as a contemporary of Ptolemy Philadel- phus, i. e. about b. c. 260 ; and, further, that from the same pen came a faypdcpow re Ka dp8piavT07roia>v dvaypacpi), extracts from which were contained, says Photius, in the eicKoycu of the younger Sopater. In treating of Duris of Samos, Vossius adds : " Alius ni fallor ab hoc Duride est is cujus liber irep faypacpias citatur a Diogene Laertio I. i. 38, estque is sine dubio quem toreuticen scripsisse ait Plin. Ind. lib. xxxiii. Sunt enim affines artes pictorum et torneutarum, uti et sculptorum, eoque non absurde existimemus hunc esse qui ad commendationem artis prodiderit, Socraten quoque ipydo-aaOai idovs, teste Diog. Laert. n. v. 19." I see no reason why Vossius should distinguish the writer on art from Duris Samius the historian, who flourished b. c. 280, and was one of the chief authorities from which Pausanias gathered his his- torical materials*. I have no doubt that the monographs by Hullemann, Eckerz and Van Gent on this Duris might here be consulted with advantage. I pass over some writers of minor importance in order to hasten on to one, who may conveniently serve as a stepping- stone to Pausanias. One of the three sources of geographical information enume- rated by Strabo (VIII. C. 1) are oi . . . Ibia AtpeW, ?} irepiirkovs, rj irepio- dovs yrjs, t) rl tolovtov aXKo iinypd^ravTes. This class of Periodic, or as it is otherwise called Periegetic literature was the spawn of the Alexandrine age. " For it was not till the life of the Greeks had in the main run its course, and creative power was quenched, that men felt a craving to investigate diligently the remains of Foretime, in their local relations to the sayings and traditions
- [C. Miiller in the Paris Fragm. Hist. Grcec. attributes the works on art to the
historian.]
