Posidippus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
the pilot
in the texts
Protrepticus
Author cited as the source for anecdotes about statues of Aphrodite at Cnidus, including stories of men falling in love with them.
another man fell in love with this one and united with the stone — Posidippus records it, the former in his work on Cyprus, the latter in his work on Cnidus.
And Praxiteles, as Posidippus makes clear in his work on Cnidus, when fashioning the statue of Cnidian Aphrodite, made her like in form to Cratine his mistress, that the wretches might have Praxiteles' mistress to worship.
Apollodorus Against Polycles
The pilot who obeys Apollodorus rather than Callippus.
but Posidippus, the pilot, answered him that I was trierarch of the ship, and the one responsible, and that he got his pay from me;