Theaetetus (
Greek
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: Θεαίτητος, Theaítētos;
fl.
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3rd century BC) was a poet of the
Greek Anthology
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.
Of Theaetetus the poet, we only know with certainty that he lived at or after the time of the Academic philosopher
Crantor
Crantor ( el, Κράντωρ, ''gen''.: Κράντορος; died 276/5 BC) was a Greek philosopher and scholarch (leader) of the Old Academy, probably born around the middle of the 4th century BC, at Soli in Cilicia (modern-day Turkey).
Life
Cra ...
, his epitaph upon whom is preserved by
Diogenes Laertius
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. Crantor flourished about
Olympiad
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Although the ancient Olympics were established during Greece's Archaic Era, it was not until ...
116, 316 BC. Six epigrams of Theaetetus are contained in the ''Greek Anthology''; another is by the later
Theaetetus Scholasticus.
[Brunck, ''Anal.'' vol. ii. p. 251, vol. iii. p. 131, ''Lection.'' p. 189; Jacobs, ''Anth. Graec.'' vol. ii. p. 227, vol. xiii. p. 957; Fabricius, ''Bibl. Graec.'' vol. iv. p. 496.]
References
Bibliography
* Folkerts, Menso; Albiani, Maria Grazia (2006)
"Theaetetus (2)" In Salazar, Christine F. (ed.). ''
Brill's New Pauly''. Accessed 14 February 2022.
* Smith, Philip (1867)
"Theaetetus (3)" In Smith, William (ed.) ''
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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.'' 3. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. p. 1021.
Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology
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