title: Istros the Callimachean
text: # Istros the Callimachean
  
  Istros the Callimachean (Ancient Greek: Ἴστρος ὁ Καλλιμάχειος) was a Greek writer, probably from Paphos. He was a pupil of Callimachus, and active in the Library of Alexandria. Seventy-seven fragments of his writings remain, mostly from his four-volume Attica, which discussed the cult, religion, and institutions of Attica in its mythical past, based largely on Atthides. According to the Suda, a 10th-century encyclopedia, he wrote both prose and verse.
  
  ## Works
  
  Istros' works exist only in fragments (FGrHist 334). Among his attested works are:
  
  * Attika (Ἀττικά)
  * Atakta (Ἄτακτα)
  * Attikai lexeis (Ἀττικαὶ λέξεις)
  * Argolika (Ἀργολικά)
  * Eliaka (Ἠλιακά)
  * The colonies of the Egyptians (Αἰγυπτίων ἀποικίαι)
  * On the city of Ptolemais (Περὶ Πτολεμαΐδος)
  * Collection of Cretan feasts (Συναγωγὴ τῶν Κρητικῶν θυσιῶν)
  * On the struggles of Helios (Περὶ τῶν Ἡλίου ἀγώνων)
  * The manifestations of Apollo (Ἀπόλλωνος ἐπιφάνειαι)
  * The manifestations of Hercules (Ἡρακλέους ἐπιφάνειαι)
  * On the lyric poets (Περὶ μελοποιῶν)
  * Symmikta (Σύμμικτα), "Miscellany"
  * Hypomnemata (Ὑπομνήματα), "Commentary"
  * Replies to Timeus (Πρὸς Τίμαιον ἀντιγραφαί)
  