Pherenicus

Pherenicus (Greek: Φερένικος) was an epic poet from Heraclea Pontica. He treated of Metamorphoses and similar fabulous tales. Athenaeus gives a statement from him respecting the origin of the fig-tree and other trees;[1] and Tzetzes speaks of him as one of those who treated of the monstrous and fabulous forms of men,[2] and quotes from him two lines respecting the Hyperboreans.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Athenaeus. "14". Deipnosophistaí Δειπνοσοφισταί [The Deiphnosophists] (in Greek). III. p. 78b.
  2. ↑ Tzetzes. "144: Περι του και ει τι τουτων ψευδεπινουστερον". Chiliades (in Greek). VII.
  3. ↑ comp. Schol. ad Pind. Ol. iii. 28.
  4. ↑ Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Pherenicus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 3. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 259.
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