Phaedimus of Bisanthe ( el, Φαίδιμος Βισανθηνός; 2nd century BC) was an ancient Greek poet from

Bisanthe Bisanthe ( grc, Βισάνθη) was a great city in ancient Thrace, on the coast of the Propontis, which had been founded by the Samians. About 400 BCE, Bisanthe belonged to the kingdom of the Thracian prince Seuthes II. At a later period its ...

(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 The ''Greek Anthology'' ( la, Anthologia Graeca) is a collection of poems, mostly epigrams, that span the Classical and Byzantine periods of Greek literature. Most of the material of the ''Greek Anthology'' comes from two manuscripts, the ''Pa ...

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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