- (Latin mirabilia, 'marvels, miracles'). The term
paradoxographos (
paradoxographer) was
coined by Tzetzes.
Early surviving examples of the
genre include:...
-
original author's name is lost.
Noted by
Jacob Stern, "Hera****us the
Paradoxographer: Περὶ Ἀπίστων, 'On
Unbelievable Tales'".
Transactions of the American...
- Euripides, Virgil, and
others did not give an
exact figure. Hera****us the
Paradoxographer rationalized the myth by
suggesting that the
Hydra would have been...
- kill him. The myth is also
preserved in the
works of some
anonymous paradoxographer. The
story is also told in
Achilles Tatius'
Leukippe and Kleitophon...
- the
others is A
Handbook to the
Seven Wonders of the
World by the
paradoxographer Philo of Byzantium,
writing in the 4th to 5th
century AD (not to be...
- Ovid,
Metamorphoses 4.167–273;
Lactantius Placidus,
Argumenta 4.5;
Paradoxographers anonymous, p. 222 Hard, p. 45; Gantz, p. 34; Berens, p. 63; Grimal...
-
author on
stones Hera****us of Tyre,
friend of
Antiochus Hera****us the
paradoxographer,
rationalizing author on Gr****
mythology Hera****us the Peripatetic...
- from a well and
predicts an earthquake.
Apollonius Paradoxographus, a
paradoxographer who may have
lived in the
second century BC,
identified Pythagoras's...
-
which Aidoneus grants. A 2nd-century AD Gr****
known as Hera****us the
paradoxographer (not to be
confused with the 5th-century BC Gr****
philosopher Hera****us)—claimed...
-
belongs to a
different Philo of Byzantium,
distinguished as
Philo the
Paradoxographer, who
lived in a much
later date,
probably the 4th–5th
century AD. It...
