What is "xenagoras"

Xenagoras was the name of a number of men of classical antiquity:

• Xenagoras of Halicarnassus, companion of the Achaemenid commander Masistes
• Xenagoras (historian), a historical writer, likely of the 2nd century BCE
• Xenagoras, historian, and father of the historian Nymphis. Possibly the same man as the above. If so, he must have lived in the early part of the second century BCE.
• Xenagoras (geometer), who wrote in the ancient world about the heights of mountains
• Xenagoras, an archon of Delphi in late 1st century BCE.
• Xenagoras, son of Phoinix, and Xenagoras, son of Xenagoras, two (presumably related) men recorded as providing a sizable donation to the state on the epidosis of Kalymna (modern Kalymnos).

Xenagoras was a Greek historian quoted by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, from whom we learn that Xenagoras wrote that Odysseus and Circe had three sons, Rhomos, Anteias, and Ardeas, who founded the three cities which were called by their names. He wrote a work titled Chronicle , and another on islands . The 5th century writer Macrobius also refers to the third book of the history of Xenagoras.

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

Xenagoras , son of Eumelus, was mentioned by Plutarch as having been among the first to make a scientific measurement of the heights of mountains. This Xenagoras estimated the height of the shrine of Apollo atop Mount Olympus as a little more than 10 stadia, that is, roughly 6,096 feet. (The mountain is in fact 9,573 feet.) There are some ancient references to a (now lost) book Measurement of Mountains by a "Xenophon" that some scholars consider to be a reference to this Xenagoras, albeit with the wrong name.