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Aristophanes of Boeotia was a local historian of Boeotia and Thebes; little is known of his life or exact date. His works are lost and survive only in quotations by later writers. This set gathers what remains of two of them, the Horoi Thebaion (Chronicles of Thebes) and the Boeotica, together with testimonies, including passages from Plutarch's essay On the Malice of Herodotus, which cites him as a source for Theban history.
Aristophanes is chiefly remembered because Plutarch used him against Herodotus, reporting his claim that the historian had sought money from the Thebans and been refused. The fragments offer a glimpse of the regional traditions of Boeotia and of the local historians whose work lay behind later accounts of Greek history and legend.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: FHG IV p. 337 (= FGrHist 379 F 1–5)). Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ).