Pherenicus
Pherenicus (Greek: Φερένικος) was an epic poet from Heraclea Pontica.[1][2] He treated of Metamorphoses and similar fabulous tales. Athenaeus attributes to him the statement that the daughters of Hamadryas and Oxylus were various hamadryad nymphs, associated with different types of trees.[3][4] Tzetzes speaks of him as one of those who treated of the monstrous and fabulous forms of men,[5] and quotes from him two lines respecting the Hyperboreans.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ↑ Sandin, Pär (2014). "Famous Hyperboreans". Nordlit. 33: 214.
- ↑ Beck, Hans (Cologne); Fornaro, Sotera (Sassari); Portmann, Werner (Berlin) (2006-10-01), "Pherenicus", Brill’s New Pauly, Brill, retrieved 2022-07-11
- ↑ Larson, Jennifer, Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0195122941. p. 283 n. 31.
- ↑ Athenaeus. "14". Deipnosophistaí Δειπνοσοφισταί [The Deiphnosophists] (in Greek). Vol. III. p. 78b.
- ↑ Tzetzes. "144: Περι του και ει τι τουτων ψευδεπινουστερον". Chiliades (in Greek). Vol. VII.
- ↑ comp. Schol. ad Pind. Ol. iii. 28.
- ↑ Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Pherenicus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 3. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 259.