Philinus of Agrigentum

Philinos of Akragas was an ancient Greek historian who was born in Agrigentum in Sicily and lived in the second half of the 3rd century BC.

Philinos wrote a historical work from the us but only fragments have survived. The precise extent we also unknown, but it served Polybius as an important source for the history of the first Punic war; Diodorus also has used the work. According to Polybius ' own statement Philinos wrote a pro- Carthaginian point of view ( cf. Polybius 1.14 f ), while serving as a corrective for the Roman Quintus Fabius Pictor page for Polybius. But this tells us something about the various viewpoints of the authors, less about the quality of the work. This must have been quite high, because Polybius seems to have been based on long passages, especially on Philinos.

Polybius, among others, from a traditional Roman- Carthaginian at Philinos contract which regulated the mutual spheres of interest (so-called Philinosvertrag ), but whose historicity is disputed.

The fragments of Philinos are collected in: The fragments of Greek historians, No. 174

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