Polycleitus(Πολύκλειτος), literary.
1. Of Larissa, a Greek historian, and one of the numerous writers of the history of
Alexander the Great. Athenaeus quotes from the eighth book of his histories (xii. p. 539a.);
and there are several other quotations from him in Strabo (xi.
p.509d., xv. pp. 728, a. d., 735, a., 16.742, a.), and other writers (Plut. Alex. 46; Ael. NA 16.41).
There are some other passages in which the name of Polycleitus is erroneously put for that of
Polycritus of Mende (Diod. 13.83; Ath. v. p. 206e.; Plin. Nat. 31.2. s. 4.) He may, perhaps, have been the same
person as Polycleitus of Larissa, the father of Olympias, mother of Antigonus Doson. Most of
the extracts from his histories refer to the geography of the countries which [Alexander](alexander-the-great-bio-1) invaded. They are collected, with a notice
of the author, by C. Müller, in his
Scriptores Rerum Alexandri
Magni, (pp. 129-133), in Didot's
Scriptorums Graecorum
Bibliotheca, Paris, 1846. (See also Vossius,
de Hist. Graec. p.
489, ed. Westermann; Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. p. 49.)