Ptolemaeus Chennus

Ptolemy was a Greek writer Chennos ( "Stained writer " ) and Mythograph of the 1st century AD He was the son of Hephaestion of Alexandria and author of a biography of Aristotle. Of his works, only fragments survive, longer excerpts from his Kaine Historia.

The value of news and information source of Kaine Historia is controversial in research. While Rudolf Hercher 1856, the most alleged quotations regarded as forgeries and many concurred with him in this view, Anton Chatzis joined in 1914 for the authenticity of the quotes a. Between these extremes, the thesis of Karl -Heinz Tomberg (1968 ) occupies a mediating position.