Menecrates of Ephesus

Menecrates of Ephesus (330-270 BC) was an ancient Greek didactic poet of the Hellenistic period. ^[1] He wrote a poem called the Works which was modeled upon Hesiod's Works and Days and included a discussion of bees based on the work of Aristotle. He was the teacher of the astronomical poet Aratus.^[2].

References

• edition of his surviving works: Supplementum Hellenisticum, ed. Hugh Lloyd-Jones; P J Parsons; H -G Nesselrath; J U Powell. Berlin & New York : W. de Gruyter, 1983 ISBN 9783110081718

1. ^ Oxford Classical Dictionary, ed. Hornblower, Simon, and Antony Spawforth. 3rd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. ISBN 9780192687678 p.958
2. ^ Philip Thibodeau, "Menekrates of Ephesos" , p. 545 in The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists, ed. Paul T. Keyser and Georgia L. Irby-Massie. London & New York: Routledge, 2008. ISBN 9780415340205

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Name	Ephesus, Menecrates of
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Date of birth	330 BC
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Date of death	270 BC
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