Poseidippus
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Poseidippus or Posidippus (Template:Lang-grc or Template:Lang-grc) is a Greek theophoric name. It may refer to a number of individuals from classical antiquity, including:
- Poseidippus or Posidippus (comic poet), c. 316–250 BC, a celebrated poet of the New Comedy at Athens, known for his novel use of language, and influence on the Latin poets.
- Poseidippus or Posidippus of Pella, c. 310–240 BC, an epigrammatic poet at Samos and Alexandria, some of whose poems are included in the Greek Anthology.
- Poseidippus, a historian who wrote about Cnidus, and whose work discusses the Venus of Praxiteles. He may be identical with the epigrammatist.
- Poseidippus, a priest of Persephone at Pella.
- Poseidippus, son of Eupolis, stephanophorus (chief magistrate) of Miletus during the reign of Seleucus I.
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