Athanadas (Ancient Greek: Ἀθανάδας) was a writer of ancient Greece. We know from the writer Antoninus Liberalis that he wrote a work on the city of Ambracia, titled Ambrakika (Ἀμβρακικά), but none of his works survive.[1][2] His time is unknown, but the scholar Felix Jacoby believed he lived around the 3rd century BCE, and was a native of Ambracia.[3][4][5]
There was also a probably unrelated man of this name—Athenadas of Rhegium, son of Zopyros—who was a citharode who performed in the Delphic Soteria in 150 BCE.[6][7]
References
edit- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 100.4
- ^ McGlew, James F. (2018). Tyranny and Political Culture in Ancient Greece. Cornell University Press. p. 175. ISBN 9781501728723. Retrieved 2024-08-27.
- ^ Felix Jacoby, Fragmente der griechischen Historiker iv. 343f
- ^ Lytle, Ephraim (2022). "Myth, Memory and a Massacre on the Road to Dodona: Reinterpreting an Elegiac Lament from Archaic Ambracia (SEG 41.540A)". In Antonopoulos, Andreas P.; Papachrysostomou, Athina; Christopoulos, Menelaos (eds.). Myth and History: Close Encounters. De Gruyter. p. 80. ISBN 9783110780116. Retrieved 2024-08-27.
- ^ Cameron, Alan (2004). Greek Mythography in the Roman World. Oxford University Press. p. 181. ISBN 9780190291099. Retrieved 2024-08-27.
- ^ Slater, William (2007). "Deconstructing Festivals". In Wilson, Peter (ed.). The Greek Theatre and Festivals: Documentary Studies. Oxford University Press. p. 46. ISBN 9780191535062. Retrieved 2024-08-27.
- ^ Grzesik, Dominika (2021). Honorific Culture at Delphi in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods. Brill Publishers. p. 124. ISBN 9789004502499. Retrieved 2024-08-27.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Mason, Charles Peter (1870). "Athanadas". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 393.