[1] He wrote a history of the Diadochi and their descendants, encompassing the period from the death of Alexander to the war with Pyrrhus (323–272 BC), which is one of the chief authorities used by Diodorus Siculus (xviii.–xx.)
The simplicity of his style seemingly rendered his work unpopular to people of his time, but modern historians believe it was very good.
In the last part of his work he made a praiseworthy attempt to acquaint the Greeks with the character and early history of the Romans.
[1] Like the even more famous lost history of Alexander by Ptolemy I of Egypt, no significant amount of his work survived the end of the ancient world, although he is extensively referenced by later historians.
He is among the authors whose fragments were collected in Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller's Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum (II pp.