Theodoridas of Syracuse (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Θεοδωρίδας ὁ Συρακούσιος) was a lyric and epigrammatic poet from Syracuse, Magna Graecia, who is supposed to have lived at the same time as Euphorion, about 235 BC; for, on the one hand, Euphorion is mentioned in one of the epigrams of Theodoridas,[1] and, on the other hand, Clement of Alexandria quotes a verse of Euphorion Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: ἐν ταῖς πρὸς Θεωρίδαν ἀντιγραφαῖς, where Schneider suggests the emendation Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Θεοδωρίδαν.[2]
He had a place in the Garland of Meleager. In addition to the eighteen epigrams ascribed to him in the Greek Anthology, about the genuineness of some of which there are doubts,[3] [4] he wrote a lyric poem Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Εἰς Ἔρωτα, upon which a commentary was written by Dionysius, named Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: ὁ Λεπτός,[5] a dithyramb titled "The Centaurs" (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Κένταυροι),[6] [7] licentious verses of the kind called Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: φλύακες,[8] and some other poems, of which we have a few fragments, but not the titles. The name is more than once confused with Theodorus (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Θεόδωρος) and Theodoritos (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Θεοδώριτος).[9] [10] [11] [12]