Satyrus the Peripatetic
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Satyrus (Greek: Σάτυρος). A distinguished Peripatetic philosopher and historian, who lived in the time of Ptolemy IV Philopator (c. 210 BC), if not later. He wrote a collection of biographies, among which were lives of Philip and Demosthenes, and which is frequently cited by ancient writers. He also wrote on the population of Alexandria; and a work On characters (Περὶ χαρακτήρων).
His biography of the Athenian dramatist Euripides was found as a near-complete copy at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
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