Cleitarchus

Cleitarchus or Clitarchus (Greek: Κλείταρχος, romanized: Kleitarchos) was one of the historians of Alexander the Great.

Son of the historian Dinon of Colophon, he spent a considerable time at the court of Ptolemy Lagus.

74) credits him with more ability than trustworthiness, and Cicero (Brutus, II) accuses him of giving a fictitious account of the death of Themistocles.

But there is no doubt that his history was very popular, and much used by Diodorus Siculus, Quintus Curtius, Justin and Plutarch, and the authors of the Alexander romances.

[1] His work, the History of Alexander, is almost completely lost and has survived only in some thirty fragments preserved by ancient authors, especially by Aelian and Strabo.