Athenaeus (poet)

Athenaeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀθήναιος) was an epigrammatic poet whose work was mentioned by the historian Diogenes Laërtius.^[1] He was the author of two epigrams in the Greek Anthology.^[2] Of his date, we know only that he lived in or before the 3rd century CE.

References

1. Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers 6.14, 7.30
2. Richard François Philippe Brunck, Analecta veterum Poetarum Graecorum ii. p. 257

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Mason, Charles Peter (1870). "Athenaeus (2)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 400.