Euphorion
historical figure · 2 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Euphorion the Chalcidian · the poet Euphorion
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Stromata
Euphorion, poet and scholar, cited (via On the Aleuadae) for dating Homer to the time of Gyges.
And Euphorion, in his work On the Aleuadae, places him in the time of Gyges, who began to reign from the eighteenth Olympiad, and whom he says was the first to be called "tyrant.
In like manner too the poet Euphorion brings in Nestor saying:
For the poet Euphorion, and the Causes of Callimachus, and the Alexandra of Lycophron, and such-like works, are set as an exercise in exegesis for the boys of the grammarians.