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Antiphanes, 4th cent. B.C.

Antiphanes, of Berga in Thrace, a Greek writer on marvellous and incredible things (Apista, Scymnius Chius, 657, &c.). From the manner in which he is mentioned by Strabo (i., ii.; comp. Polyb. xxxiii. 12), it would seem that he wrote his stories with a view that they should be believed as history, and that consequently he was an impostor. It was owing to Antiphanes that the verb bergaizein was used in the sense of telling stories (Steph. Byz. s. v. Berge, who however confounds our Antiphanes with the comic writer of Rhodes; comp. Clem. Alex. Strom. i.; Phot. Cod. 166). Most writers agree in believing, that Antiphanes of Berga is the same as the Antiphanes who wrote a work on courtezans (peri hetairon), and whom some writers call Antiphanes the Younger (Athen. xiii.; Harpocrat. s. vv. Nannion, Antikura; Suid. s. v. Nanion).

This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks

A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith)
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