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These are a few scattered citations of paradoxographical material under the name of an Antigonus, conventionally identified with Antigonus of Carystus, though his identity with the author of the surviving Collection of Paradoxical Stories is disputed. They come from a Byzantine anecdoton edited by Cramer, from Tzetzes' Chiliades and his commentary on Lycophron, and from Hesychius, whose entry does not name Antigonus at all. The items concern fertility plants, the stages of an unborn child's growth, the halcyon and the deer-like tarandos.
The fragments show how the marvel literature associated with Antigonus continued to be read and cited by Byzantine scholars. Slight as they are, they preserve scraps of ancient lore about plants, embryos and animals attached to his name, and they illustrate the long afterlife of Hellenistic wonder-writing.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: Müller FHG IV). 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). These are paradoxographical citations of an 'Antigonus', conventionally the Carystian, but his identity with the paradoxographer is disputed and the Hesychius item does not name him at all.