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This is the single surviving fragment of a prose work entitled History by Scythinus of Teos, the iambic poet who also versified Heraclitus. The work is lost, and the passage survives only because Athenaeus quotes it in the Deipnosophists while discussing the Cylicranes, a people of the region of Mount Oeta. Written in Ionic prose, it tells how Heracles killed Eurytus and his son, sacked the Cylicranes, and founded the city of Heraclea in Trachis.
The fragment shows that Scythinus wrote prose history as well as verse, and it preserves a local foundation legend tying Heraclea Trachinia to the labours of Heracles. The surrounding context in Athenaeus, with quotations from Hermippus, Nicander of Thyatira and Polemon, also illustrates how later scholars gathered scraps of lost writers when explaining obscure names.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: FGrHist 13 F 1). 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).