Ephorus the Younger

Ephorus of Kyme was an n in the 3rd century BC Greek historian living.

Ephorus, who, like his namesake, the famous historian Ephorus, is said to have originated from Kyme in Aeolian, is mentioned only in the Middle Byzantine encyclopedia Suda. According to Ephorus, to have written a history book about Emperor Gallienus in 27 books. In the Suda him a treatise on events in Corinth, a work on the Aleuadae and other unnamed writings are attributed. Of all these works, nothing has been preserved.

From some researchers believed that the entry in the Suda is wrong. According to Ephorus, were attributed to several works wrongly. Controversial is also whether a historian named Ephorus lived in the time of Gallienus and has written such an extensive work on the Emperor. It is quite possible that Ephorus wrote a comprehensive work of history about this time and was not limited to a biography of Gallienus; but it could be in the historian also a phantom author.

Should the historian Ephorus the Younger, however, be historical, as he was one of a number of Greek historians who were active in the 3rd century, as Cassius Dio, Herodian, Nikostratos of Trebizond, Dexippos and an otherwise little-known Eusebius. This is a testament to the vitality of Greek historiography this period, although our knowledge of the time of the kingdom crisis of the 3rd century by the bad tradition situation is severely impaired.