Anticlides
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Anticlides of Athens lived after the time of Alexander the Great (Plut. Alex. 46), and is frequently referred to by later writers. At least four works may be attributed to him; whether these works were all written by Anticlides of Athens cannot be decided with certainty. None survive, except in scanty quotations:

1. Peri Noston
Nostos
Nostos is the Greek word for homecoming. It is a theme dealt with in many Homeric writings such as the Odyssey, in which the main character, Odysseus, strives to get home after the Trojan War...

was an account of the return of the Greeks from their ancient expeditions. Athen. iv. p. 157, f., ix. p. 384, d., xi. p. 466, c.)
Anticlides' statement about the Pelasgians
Pelasgians
The name Pelasgians was used by some ancient Greek writers to refer to populations that were either the ancestors of the Greeks or who preceded the Greeks in Greece, "a hold-all term for any ancient, primitive and presumably indigenous people in the Greek world." In general, "Pelasgian" has come...

, which Strabo (v. p. 221) quotes, is probably taken from the work on the Nostoi.

2.Deliaca, about Delos
Delos
The island of Delos , isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece...

 (Schol. ad Apoll. Rhod. 1. 1207, 1289.)

3.Exegeticus appears to have been a sort of Dictionary, in which perhaps an explanation of those words and phrases was given which occurred in the ancient stories. (Athen. xi. p. 473, b. c.)

4. On Alexander, of which the second book is quoted by Diogenes Laertius
Diogenes Laertius
Diogenes Laertius was a biographer of the Greek philosophers. Nothing is known about his life, but his surviving Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers is one of the principal surviving sources for the history of Greek philosophy.-Life:Nothing is definitively known about his life...

. (viii. 11; comp. Plut. Alex. l c.)
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