Xenagoras () was a Greek historian from

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus Dionysius of Halicarnassus (, ; – after 7 BC) was a Greek historian and teacher of rhetoric, who flourished during the reign of Emperor Augustus. His literary style was ''atticistic'' – imitating Classical Attic Greek in its prime. ...

, from whom we learn that Xenagoras wrote that

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and Circe had three sons, Rhomos, Anteias, and

Ardeas According to the Greek historian Xenagoras, Ardeas or Ardias or Ardeias () was a son of Odysseus and Circe. He was said to have founded Ardea, a city in Latium Latium ( , ; ) is the region of central western Italy in which the city of Rome w ...

, who founded the three cities which were called by their names. He wrote a work titled ''Chronicle'' (Χρόνοι), and another on islands (Περὶ νήσων). The 5th century writer

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also refers to the third book of the history of Xenagoras.

, v. 19 This Xenagoras was possibly the same Xenagoras as father of the historian Nymphis.

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