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[German version] (Ἀγάθυλλος; Agáthyllos). A Hellenistic writer of elegies, from Arcadia; Dion. Hal. 1,49,1 (= SH 15) has transmitted somewhat more than three of his verses. According to the version of the myth discernible here, Aeneas stops in Arcadia on his journey from Troy before reaching ‘Hesperia’, where he fathers Romulus. A. is also quoted as the source for the tradition, going back to Hegesianax of Alexandria (FGrH 45 F 9-10), of Rome's founding by Ῥῶμος (= Remus), who in this tradition is, like Romulus, a son of Aeneas (Dion. Hal. 1,72,1 = SH 16). Di Marco, Massimo (Fondi Latina)

[German version] (Παρμένων; Parménōn) from Byzantium, Hellenistic poet. Four fragments of his choliambic verses are still extant (1,2,4 CollAlex 237; SH 604 A). The humorous description of a drunkard (fr. 1 P.) and the incipit of a hymn to the Nile are particularly expressive; the latter has a catalogue of the inhabitants of various northern Egyptian towns (SH 604 A). It has been assumed that his poetry was influenced by the Cynics [1]. Di Marco, Massimo (Fondi Latina) Bibliography 1 G.A. Gerhard, Phoinix von Kolophon, 1909, 211-213.

(Εὐκλείδης; Eukleídēs). [German version] [1] Athenian archon in 403/2 BC Athenian archon in 403/2 BC. During his year in office Athens made a new start following the Oligarchy of the Thirty (e.g., see And. 1,87-94) and, among others, officially adopted the Ionian alphabet (Theopomp. FGrH 115 F 155). Rhodes, Peter J. (Durham) Bibliography Develin 199 LGPN 2, Εὐκλείδης (9). [German version] [2] of Megara Student of Socrates Student of Socrates, founder of the  Megarian School; born between 450 and 435, probably died early in the 360s. In Plato's Phaedon (59c) E. is named among those …

[German version] (Φανοκλῆς; Phanoklȇs). Early Hellenistic elegist, author of a poem entitled Ἔρωτες ἢ καλοί ( Érōtes ḕ kaloí/'Amours, or the Fair Youths'; fr. 1-6 Powell) which recounted the homosexual liaisons of gods and mythical heroes. The poem resembled a register (Catalogue) similar to Hesiod’s Catalogue of Women (Hesiodus). P. is probably also influenced by the Leontion of Hermesianax, with whom he shares a penchant for placing adjectives and nouns forming a juncture before the caesura and at the end of the pentameter, respectively. The longest fragment (1 Powell) contai…

(Φαίδιμος/ Phaídimos, 'Radiant One'). [German version] [1] Son of Amphion and Niobe One of the sons of Amphion [1] and Niobe shot by Apollo (Apollod. 3,45; Ov. Met. 6,239; Hyg. Fab. 11; Lact. ad Stat. Theb. 3,191-193; Mythographi Vaticani 1,156). Binder, Carsten (Kiel) [German version] [2] King of the Sidonians King of the Sidonians who hospitably received Menelaus [1] on his wanderings during his return from Troy; P. presented him with a cup made by Hephaestus (Hom. Od. 4,617-619; 15,117-119). Binder, Carsten (Kiel) [German version] [3] One of the 50 Thebans who enticed Tydeus …

(Σώστρατος/ Sṓstratos). [German version] [1] Of Cnidus, Greek architect, 1st half of 3rd cent. BC Son of Dexiphanes of Cnidus; architect of the early Hellenistic period (1st half of 3rd cent. BC), mentioned several times in ancient literature (Plin. HN 36,83; Lucian, Amores 11; Lucian, Hippias 2). He was also diplomatically active, as one of the philoi of Ptolemaeus [3] II (Str. 17,1,6). As well as with various canal constructions linked to the conquest of the Egyptian city of Memphis and buildings at Cnidus and Delphi (FdD III/1 nos. 198 and 299), h…