Ephorus

Also known as Ephorus of Cyme

Ephorus of Cyme (; , Ephoros ho Kymaios; 330 BC) was an ancient Greek historian known for his universal history, now lost.

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Person.name: Ephorus
Person.birth_date: 400 BC
Person.birth_place: Cyme, Achaemenid Empire
Person.death_date: 330 BC (aged 70)
Person.children: 1

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Place of birth: Cyme

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date of birth: 0400-00-00
date of death: 0330-00-00
significant place: Cyme

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Ephorus of Cyme (; , Ephoros ho Kymaios; 330 BC) was an ancient Greek historian known for his universal history, now lost.

==Biography== Information on his biography is limited. He was born in Cyme, Aeolia, and together with the historian Theopompus was a pupil of Isocrates in rhetoric. He does not seem to have made much progress as a speaker, and at the suggestion of Isocrates himself he took up literary composition and the study of history. According to Plutarch, Ephorus declined Alexander the Great's offer to join him on his Persian campaign as the official historiographer. His son Demophilus followed in his footsteps as a historian.