Menecrates of Ephesus explained

Menecrates of Ephesus (; Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Μενεκράτης ὁ Ἐφέσιος; 330–270 BC) was a Greek didactic poet of the Hellenistic period.^[1] He wrote a poem called the Works which was modeled upon Hesiod's Works and Days and included a discussion of bees based on the work of Aristotle. He was the teacher of the astronomical poet Aratus.^[2] The few surviving fragments were included by Hermann Diels in the collection Poetarum Philosophorum Fragmenta (1901). ^[3]

References

• Edition of his surviving works: Supplementum Hellenisticum, ed. Hugh Lloyd-Jones; P J Parsons; H -G Nesselrath; J U Powell. Berlin & New York : W. de Gruyter, 1983
• Book: H. Diels. Poetarum philosophorum fragmenta (1901), "Menecrates Ephesius" . 171-172.

Notes and References

1. Oxford Classical Dictionary, ed. Hornblower, Simon, and Antony Spawforth. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. p.958
2. Philip Thibodeau, "Menekrates of Ephesos", p. 545 in The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists, ed. Paul T. Keyser and Georgia L. Irby-Massie. London & New York: Routledge, 2008.
3. Diels, 1901. p. 171-172