Antigenes (historian)
Antigenes was a Greek historian, who probably lived in the late fourth century BC. He seems to have written a historical work about Alexander the Great.
Antigenes is – as well as Cleitarchus and Onesicritus – one of the older historians of Alexander mentioned by Plutarch, who described the allegedly interview of Thalestris, queen of the Amazons, with the Macedonian king as a true fact. He is also mentioned by the ancient grammarian Aelius Herodianus. The work of Antigenes has completely disappeared, but seems to have had a topographical and scientific character. It cannot be ascertained, if he is identical with Antigenes, a general of Alexander.- Felix Jacoby: Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, no. 141
