Archinus the Historian (Ἀρχῖνος ὁ Ἱστορικός)

Life The figure of Archinus the Historian is unattested in standard scholarly sources. The name Archinus is known from other contexts: an Athenian politician and orator of the late 5th century BCE involved in the democratic restoration after the Thirty Tyrants [1], and a sculptor from Miletus [2]. No biographical details or historical writings link these individuals to an historian named Archinus active from the 4th to 2nd centuries BCE, an unusually broad date range.

Works No specific titles, fragments, or subject matter of any historical work by Archinus the Historian are recorded. Major reference works and fragment collections do not list an historian of this name [3, 4, 5].

Significance Archinus the Historian is not recognized within the canon of Greek historians. The absence of any attributed writings and the vague chronological assignment suggest the figure may represent a conflation, a very minor lost author, or a mistaken attribution.

Sources 1. Perseus Digital Library, "Archinus": http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0062%3Aentry%3Darchinus-harpers 2. Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, "Archinus": http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0104:entry=archinus-bio-1 3. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics: Search for "Archinus" yielded no relevant entry for a historian. 4. Encyclopædia Britannica: Search for "Archinus" yielded no entry for a historian. 5. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Search for "Archinus" yielded no relevant entry.