Phaedimus of Bisanthe
Phaedimus of Bisanthe (Greek: Φαίδιμος Βισανθηνός; 2nd century BC) was an ancient Greek poet from Bisanthe (eastern Thrace) and author of an epic, called the Heracleia according to Athenaeus. In the introduction of the Garland of Meleager, l. 51. (Greek Anthology xiii), where Meleagre mentions the poets whom he anthologized, he is mentioned as The yellow iris of Phaedimus. The four poems attributed to him in the Greek Anthology include a dedication and an epitaph.
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- Ancient Thracian Greeks
- 2nd-century BC Greek people
- Ancient Greek epic poets
- 2nd-century BC poets
- Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology
- Ancient Greek writer stubs