1. A historian of Lampsacus, is mentioned by Tertullian (de Anim. 46)
as prior to Herodotus, and is said by Suidas (s. v.) according to the
common reading, to have flourished (γενόμενος) in the
time of Dareius Hystaspis, in the 79th Olympiad (B. C. 464); but, as
Dareius died in B. C. 485, it has been proposed to read ξθ́ for οθ́ in Suidas, thus
placing the date of Charon in Ol. 69 or B. C. 504. He lived,
however, as late as B. C. 464, for he is referred to by Plutarch
(Plut. Them. 27) as mentioning the flight of Themistocles to
Asia in B. C. 465.
Works
We find the following list of his works in Suidas : 1. Αἰθιοπικά2. Περσικά.3. Ἑλληνικά.4. Περὶ Λαμψάκου.5. Λιβυκά.6. Ὅροι Λαμψακηνῶν, a work quoted by
Athenaeus Athen. 11.475c., where Schweighaeuser proposes
to substitute ὧροι comp. Diod.
1.26, thus making its subject to be the annals of
Lampsacus.7. Πρυτάνεις ἢ Ἄρχοντες οἱ τῶν
Λακεδαιμονίων, a chronological work.8. Κτίσεις πόλεων.9. Κρητικά.10. Περίπλους ὁ ἐκτὸς τῶν Ἡρακλείων
στηλῶν.
Editions
The fragments of Charon, together with those of Hecataeus and Xanthus, have been
published by Creuzer, Heidelberg, 1806, and by Car. and Th. Müller, Fragm. Histor. Graec. Paris, 1841.
Further Information
Besides the references above given, comp. Plut. de Mul. Virt. s. v.Λαμψάκη; Strab. xiii.
p.583 ; Paus. 10.38; Athen.
12.520d.; Ael. V. H. i 15 ; Schol. ad Apoll.
Rhod. 2.2, 479; Voss. de Hist. Graec. b. 1.100.1; Clint. Fast. sub annis 504, 464.