Xenion

{{Short description|3rd-century Hellenistic author and historian}}

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Xenion ({{langx|grc-x-koine|Ξενίων}}) was a third-century Greek historian. He was probably a native of Crete; the dates of his birth and death are not known.{{cite encyclopaedia |last1=Hornblower |first1=Simon |title=Xenion, Hellenistic historian |encyclopaedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Classics |date=7 March 2016 |doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.7049 |edition=Online |isbn=978-0-19-938113-5 |url-access=subscription |url=https://oxfordre.com/classics/display/10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.001.0001/acrefore-9780199381135-e-7049}}

He is known to have written works on the history of Crete and of Italy; he likely wrote histories of other lands as well. He is mentioned in the Etymologicum Magnum (c. 1150), and by two of its sources, Macrobius ({{fl|c. 400}}) and Stephen of Byzantium (6th century). Vossius includes Xenion in his {{lang|la|De Historicis Græcis}} ('The Greek Historians', {{circa|1624}}).{{Source attribution}}

• {{cite encyclopaedia |last1=Smith |first1=William |editor=William Smith |encyclopaedia=A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology |date=1873 |publisher=J. Murray |location=London |page=1289 |volume=III: OARSES–ZYGIA |url=https://archive.org/details/adictionarygree06smitgoog/page/1288/mode/2up |title=Xenion}}
• {{cite dictionary |editor-last1=Sylburg |editor-first1=Friedrich |script-title=el:Αρκέόιον|dictionary=Etymologicum Magnum |date=1816 |location=Leipzig |publisher= J.A.G. Weigel |pages=130–131 |language=grc, el, la |url=https://archive.org/details/etymologikontome00etymuoft/page/n85/mode/2up |title=Etymologikon tomega }}