Adrianus (poet)

Adrianus (Gr. Αδριανός) was a Greek poet who wrote an epic poem on the history of Alexander the Great, which was called the Alexandriad (Αλεξανδριάς). We chiefly know of this poem from a mention of the seventh book in the Suda,^[1] but we possess only a fragment consisting of one line.^[2] The Suda mentions, among other poems, a work by a poet "Arrianus" called Alexandriad or Αλεξανδριάς,^[3] and there can be no doubt that this is the work of Adrianus, which is mistakenly attributed to this "Arrianus".^[4][5]

References

1. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s v. Σάνεια
2. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Αστραία
3. ^ Suda, s.v. Αρριανός
4. ^ Meineke, in the Abhandl. der Berlin. Akademie, 1832, p. 124
5. ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Adrianus (2)", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, pp. 22, http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0031.html 

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