Deimachus
Daimachos (Greek Δηιμάχος ), also called Deimachos, was an ancient Greek historian and diplomat v. the 3rd century BC
Daimachos came as another historian of the same name, from Plataea. He was in the service of the Seleucid Antiochus I and served as the successor of Megasthenes as the Seleucid envoy at the court of the Indian Mauryakönigs Bindusara in Pataliputra ( Palimbothra ), as Strabo reports:
About this time Daimachos wrote a now lost work of history entitled indicators. Daimachos it seems to have controversy with other authors, but was assessed his credibility even in antiquity as very low. Strabo about denied not only the information in Daimachos ' Indika, he also came to the same place to a scathing verdict on the two above-mentioned authors (though Megasthenes in research does not enjoy a particularly bad reputation ):
The few fragments of the historical work of the treated here Daimachos are collected in: The fragments of Greek historians (No. 716 ) or in Brill 's New Jacoby ( with English translation, commentary and biographical sketch of John Engels).