Cory's Ancient Fragments is compendium of fragments from ancient writers collected and published by the antiquarian and miscellaneous writer Isaac Preston Cory. The first edition was published in 1826, further followed by a revised edition containing various ancient King List's (e.g. Manetho). A further enlarged edition appeared in 1876, edited by historian E. Richmond Hodges which added many more ancient fragments.
Contents
Phoenician
Sanchuniathon
Babylonian
Berossus, Abydenus, Nicolaus of Damascus, Alexander Polyhistor, Eupolemus, Thallus,
Ctesias, Diodorus Siculus, Castor of Rhodes, Herodotus, Marcus Velleius Paterculus
Egyptian
Manetho, Artapanus, Diodorus Siculus, Chaeremon of Alexandria
Tyrian
Menander of Ephesus
Indian
Megasthenes, Cleitarchus
Carthaginian
Hanno the Navigator
Fragments (1876 Ed.)
Hodges added more ancient fragments including a section of "miscellaneous fragments" of ancient writers (e.g. Sallust, Agatharchides). However Hodge removed Cory's original fragments from neoplatonists, which he considered to be forgeries.Thall shall be used and destroyed.