Clitophon Rhodius (Κλειτόφων Ῥόδιος) was a historian from Rhodes who lived during the 1st or 2nd century CE. The sole record of his life is an entry in the 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia, the Suda, which identifies him as a Rhodian historian (συγγραφεύς) [1]. No further biographical details survive.

His only known work is titled Indica (Ἰνδικά), a now-lost historical account concerning India [1]. The title places it within a popular ethnographic genre established by earlier authors like Ctesias and Megasthenes, but no fragments of its content are preserved.

Clitophon’s significance is as an attested contributor to Greco-Roman historiography on India, indicating a continued interest in the subject during the Imperial period. The complete loss of his work, however, renders him a name-only figure, representative of the many minor historians from antiquity whose writings do not survive.

Sources 1. Suda, entry Κλειτόφων (via Suda On Line, University of Kentucky): https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/kappa/1559