Archytas of Amphissa

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Archytas (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχύτας) of Amphissa was a Greek poet who was probably a contemporary of Euphorion of Chalcis, about 300 BCE, since it was a matter of doubt with the ancients themselves whether the epic poem Γέρανος (Geranos) was the work of Archytas or Euphorion.[1]

Plutarch quotes from him a hexameter verse concerning the country of the Ozolian Locrians.[2] Two other lines, which he is said to have inserted in the poem Hermes of Eratosthenes, are preserved in the writings of Stobaeus.[3] He seems to have been the same person whom Diogenes Laërtius calls an epigrammatist,[4] and upon whom Bion of Smyrna wrote an epigram which he quotes.[5]

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  1. ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 3.82
  2. ^ Plutarch, Αἰτίαι Ἑλλήνων 15)
  3. ^ Stobaeus, Sermones 58.10
  4. ^ Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 8.82
  5. ^ Bion of Smyrna, 4.52

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Archytas". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 273.

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