Agias
Agias or Hagias (Greek: Ἀγίας) was an ancient Greek poet, whose name was formerly written Augias through a mistake of the first editor of the Excerpta of Proclus.[1] This misreading was corrected by Friedrich Thiersch,[2] from the Codex Monacensis, which in one passage has "Agias", and in another "Hagias". The name itself does not occur in early Greek writers, unless it be supposed that the "Egias" or "Hegias" (Ἡγίας) in Clement of Alexandria[3] and Pausanias,[4] are only different forms of the same name.
Agias was a native of
Where the Nostoi is mentioned without a name, it was generally understood to have been the work of this Agias.References
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Agias (2)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 71
- ^ Friedrich Thiersch, Acta Philol. Monac. ii. p. 584
- ^ Clement of Alexandria, Stromata vi. p. 622
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece i. 2. § 1
- ^ Athenaeus, vii. p. 281
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece x. 28. § 4, 29. § 2, 30. § 2
- ^ Bibliotheca ii. 1. § 5
- Scholiast, on the Odysseyiv. 12
- Scholiast, ad Aristoph. Equit. 1332
- ^ Lucian, De Saltat. 46
- ^ Suda, s.v. νόστοι
- ^ Anthol. Planud. iv. 30
- ^ Eustathius of Thessalonica, on the Odyssey xvi. 118
- Scholiast, ad Pind.Ol. xiii. 31
- ^ Athenaeus iv. p. 157, ix. p. 466
- ^ Athenaeus xiii. p. 609
- ^ Athenaeus iv. p. 158
- Scholiast, on Apollonius of Rhodesi. 558
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Agias (2)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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