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Arcadian History (Fragments) gathers the surviving traces of the Arkadika, a local history of Arcadia by Ariaethus of Tegea, whose date is uncertain but is usually placed in the fourth or third century BC. The work itself is lost and survives only in citations by Hyginus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus and the scholia to Homer, Apollonius of Rhodes and the Rhesus. The fragments concern Callisto and the Little Bear, Nestor's duel with Ereuthalion, Aeneas in Arcadia, Cyrene and the parentage of Pan.
Little is known of Ariaethus beyond his city and his subject, but his fragments show how Greek local historians preserved regional versions of myth that differed from the Panhellenic tradition. Readers can see Arcadian genealogies, a grave epigram for a legendary king, and a local claim that Trojans settled in Arcadia, all filtered through the later writers who quoted him.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: FGrHist 316; FHG IV p. 318). 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).