Rhianus
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Rhianus (Greek: Ῥιανὸς ὁ Κρής) was a Greek poet and grammarian, a native of Crete, friend and contemporary of Eratosthenes (275–195 BC).
Biography
The Panyasis, containing the same number of books (fourteen).
Legacy
Rhianos also wrote a number of homoerotic epigrams, and was also mentioned in one of Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy's poems ("Young Men of Sidon (A.D. 400)").[2]
Notes
- ^ Suda ρ 158
- ISBN 978-960-7233-16-5, pp. 22 and 109.
References
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
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