Choerilus of Iasus ( grc-gre, Χοιρίλος) was an epic poet of Iasus in Caria, who lived in the 4th century BC. He accompanied Alexander the Great on his campaigns as court-poet. He is well known from the passages in

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according to which he received a piece of gold for every good verse he wrote in celebration of the glorious deeds of his master. The quality of his verses may be estimated from the remark attributed to Alexander, that he would rather be the Thersites of Homer than the Achilles of Choerilus. The epitaph on Sardanapalus, said to have been translated from the

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, notes quoted in Athenaeus, viii. p. 336 is generally supposed to be by Choerilus.

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* In this article, he is the third poet named Choerilus discussed. This article cites ** ** where the above poet is carefully distinguished from the others of the same name ** **Walsh, J. (2011) “The ''Lamiaka'' of Choerilus of Iasos and the Genesis of the term ‘Lamian War,’” ''CQ'' 61.2: 538–44. {{DEFAULTSORT:Choerilus Of Iasus Ancient Greek poets Poets of Alexander the Great 4th-century BC Greek people 4th-century BC poets Ancient Greeks in Caria Ancient Greek epic poets