Scythinus of Teos
{{Short description|Ancient Greek iambic poet}}
Scythinus of Teos ({{langx|grc|Σκυθίνος}}; {{fl.|5th or 4th century BCE}}){{sfn|West|1974}}{{sfn|Sironi|2019}} was an iambic poet from Teos who turned the work of the philosopher Heraclitus into verse.{{Cite Lives of the Eminent Philosophers|chapter = Heraclitus|§=16}} A considerable fragment, apparently from this work, is preserved by Stobaeus.Eclog. Phys. 1.9.43, p. 264 Two of his epigrams are also preserved in the Greek Anthology.Anth. Pal. XII.22, XII.232
Plutarch also quotes from him twice some verses respecting the lyre,Moralia pp. 402, 705 and Athenaeus quotes from him once.Deipnosophistae Book XI p. 461 Scythinus is also mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium.Ethnica, Τές
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- {{cite book |last1=West |first1=Martin Litchfield |title=Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus |chapter=Scythinus| date=1974 |publisher=de Gruyter |pages=176–177 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tNfMxgEACAAJ |access-date=26 April 2025 |language=en}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Sironi |first1=Francesco |title=Heraclitus in Verse: The Poetic Fragments of Scythinus of Teos |journal=Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies |date=2019 |volume=59 |pages=551–567 |url=https://grbs.library.duke.edu/index.php/grbs/article/download/16261/7247/20274 |access-date=26 April 2025}}
{{DGRBM | title = Scythinus| url = https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aentry%3Dscythinus-bio-1}}
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Category:Epigrammatists of the Greek Anthology
Category:Ancient Greek iambic poets
Category:5th-century BC Greek poets
Category:4th-century BC Greek poets
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