Archytas ( grc, 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.
Plutarch
Plutarch (; grc-gre, Πλούταρχος, ''Ploútarchos''; ; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his ''P ...
quotes from him a
hexameter verse concerning the country of the Ozolian
Locrians. Two other lines, which he is said to have inserted in the poem ''Hermes'' of
Eratosthenes
Eratosthenes of Cyrene (; grc-gre, Ἐρατοσθένης ; – ) was a Greek polymath: a mathematician, geographer, poet, astronomer, and music theorist. He was a man of learning, becoming the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria ...
, are preserved in the writings of
Stobaeus. He seems to have been the same person whom
Diogenes Laërtius
Diogenes Laërtius ( ; grc-gre, Διογένης Λαέρτιος, ; ) was a biographer of the Ancient Greece, Greek philosophers. Nothing is definitively known about his life, but his surviving ''Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers'' is a ...
calls an
epigram
An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word is derived from the Greek "inscription" from "to write on, to inscribe", and the literary device has been employed for over two mille ...
matist, and upon whom
Bion of Smyrna wrote an epigram which he quotes.
[ Bion of Smyrna, 4.52]
Notes
Ancient Greek poets
3rd-century BC Greek people
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