Summary
Agroetas (Ancient Greek: Ἀγροίτας) was an ancient Greek historian who wrote a work on Scythia (Σκυθικά),[1] from the thirteenth book of which the scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes quotes,[2] and one on Libya (Λιβυκά), the fourth book of which is quoted by the same scholiast.[3] He is also mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium.[4] He is one of the authors (= FGrHist 762) whose fragments were collected in Felix Jacoby's Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker.
Agroetas is also the name of a Roman rhetorician mentioned by the elder Seneca, but about whom nothing more is known.[5]
References edit
- ^ Mason, Charles Peter (1867), "Agroetas", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 82, archived from the original on 2008-06-06, retrieved 2008-06-05
- ^ Scholiast on Apollonius, ii. 1248
- ^ Scholiast on Apollonius, , iv. 1396
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Ἄμπελος
- ^ Seneca the Elder, Controversiae ii. 15. 13.; ii. 6. 12.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Agroetas". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.