Zopyrus (disambiguation)
Zopyrus (/ˈzoʊpɪrəs/; Ancient Greek: Ζώπυρος, Zōpyros) may refer to:
- Zopyrus (6th century BC), a Persian satrap of Babylon mentioned in Herodotus' Histories
- Megabyzus and Amytis , grandson of the satrap and son of
- , an engineer and Pythagorean (5th century BC) credited with the invention of two advanced forms of the gastraphetes and the protagonist of the novel The Arrows of Hercules (1965)
- Brontinus, The Net, The Robe and The Krater (possibly the same as Zopyrus of Tarentum, or possibly as early as the 6th century BC) , author of three Orphic poems whose authorship is also ascribed to
- (5th century BC), a physiognomist (possibly the same as the Thracian tutor of Alcibiades mentioned in the Platonic First Alcibiades, 122b)(see also, Cicero's De Fato V)
- , a dialogue by Phaedo of Elis, in which Zopyrus the physiognomist practices his art on Socrates
- Zopyros perikaiomenos (Zopyrus on Fire), a comedy by Strattis
- (early 3rd century BC), credited with introducing the rhetorical concept of stasis
- (ca. 300 BC?), proponent of singing Homeric poetry in the Aeolic dialect and probable author of a history (FGrHist 494), The Foundation of Miletus, cited in the scholium to Iliad 10.274
- Zopyrus, a soldier of Antigonus II Gonatas (3rd century BC) said to have killed Pyrrhus of Epirus
- (1st century BC)
- Zopyrus (physician) (1st century BC), teacher of Apollonius of Citium at Alexandria
- (1st century AD), a physician and acquaintance of Scribonius Largus, from Gordium (or perhaps Gortyn), possibly to be identified with the Epicurean speaker in Plutarch's Symposiaca
- Zopyrus (Bishop of Barca), present at the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325: see Cyrenaica and Barca
- Aurelios Zopyros (4th century AD), the last reported athlete at the Ancient Olympic Games
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