Agroetas

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Agroetas (Gr. Ἀγροίτας) was an ancient Greek historian who wrote a work on Scythia (Σκυθικά),[1] from the thirteenth book of which the scholiast on Apollonius quotes,[2] and one on Libya (Λιβυκά), the fourth book of which is quoted by the same scholiast.[3] He is also mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium.[4]

Agroetas is also the name of a Roman rhetorician mentioned by the elder Seneca, but about whom nothing more is known.[5]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Mason, Charles Peter (1867), “Agroetas”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 82 
  2. ^ Scholiast on Apollonius, ii. 1248
  3. ^ Scholiast on Apollonius, , iv. 1396
  4. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Ἄμπελος
  5. ^ Seneca the Elder, Controversiae ii. 15. 13.; ii. 6. 12.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).