ANTIGONDS OF CARYSTUS (in Euboea), Greek writer, flourished in the 3rd century B.C. at the court of Attalus I. (241 '97) of Pergamum. His chief work was the Lives of Philosophers, drawn from his personal knowledge, of which considerable frag ments are found in Athenaeus and Diogenes Laertius. His Collec tion of Wonderful Tales, chiefly extracted from the eavµacrta 'Auoliijtara attributed to Aristotle and the Oavµaaca of Callima chus is still preserved.
Text in Keller, Rerum Naturalium Scriptores Graeci Minores, i. (1877) ; see Kopke, De Antigono Carystio (1862) ; Wilamowitz Mollendorff, "A. von Karystos," in Philologische Untersuchungen, iv. (1881).