LC control no. | n 2019008194 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | Ephippus, of Olynthus |
Variant(s) | Efippo, di Olinto |
Beginning date | -03 |
Place of birth | Greece Olynthus (Extinct city) |
Found in | Efippo di Olinto, 2017. Brill's New Pauly, 2004: volume 4, column 1033 (Ephippus of Olynthus, at the court of Alexander the Great during the final years; he later wrote an anecdotal work "On the life and death of Hephaestion and Alexander;" as all extant fragments derive from Athenaeus, they for the most part describe banquets ... Identification of E. with an officer of Alexander in Egypt is erroneously based) Oxford dictionary of the classical world, 2003: p. 529 (Ephippus of Olynthus, contemporary of Alexander; wrote a work on the deaths of Alexander the Great and Hephaestion, which is quoted by Athenaeus for its lurid but circumstantial detail) |