ABSTRACT

RE 4.2 (1901) 1978 (#2), M. Wellmann. Philip Thibodeau

D a i m a k h o s of Plataia (280 – 260 BCE) Daimakhos served Antiokhos I as ambassador to the Mauryan king Bindusāra (ruled 297-272 BCE), and wrote an Indika, criticizing MEGASTHENĒS, and dismissed by E R A T O ­ STHENĒS (in STRABŌN 2.1.19). He also authored a work on siege warfare (Poliorkētika), according to STEPHANOS OF BUZANTION (s.v. Lakedaimōn) and ATHĒNAIOS M E G H . (p. 5 W.), as well as one on piety (Peri Eusebias), of which the sole fragment (PLUTARCH, Lysander 12.6-7) attributes the fall of a meteorite to a comet (cf. ANAXAGORAS). FGrHist 716; BNP 4 (2004) 40 (#2), K. Meister.