the early 2nd century. Mimnermus of Colophon, elegiac poet, flourished about 630–600 BC. Moschus, bucolic poet and friend of Aristarchus of Samothrace, born at Syracuse, flourished about 150 BC. N Naumachius Nicander (fl. 2nd century BC) Nicarchus (1st century AD) Nine lyric poets Nonnus Nossis O Olen (poet), early poet from Lycia who went to Delos Onomacritus, (c. 530 – 480 BC), also known as Onomacritos or Onomakritos, a chresmologue, or compiler of oracles Oppian or Oppianus (in Greek, Οππιανος) was the name of the authors of two (or three) didactic poems in Greek hexameters, formerly identified as one poet, but now generally regarded as two: Oppian of Corycus (or Anabarzus) in Cilicia, who flourished in the reign of Marcus Aurelius Oppian of Apamea (or Pella) in Syria. His extant poem on hunting (Cynegetica) is dedicated to the emperor Caracalla, so that it must have been written after 211 Oroebantius of Troezena P Palladas (flourished 4th century AD) of Alexandria; unknown except for his epigrams in the Greek Anthology Panyassis of Halicarnassus (sometimes known as Panyasis), 5th century BC epic poet, wrote the Heracleia and the Ionica Parthenius of Nicaea of Nicaea in Bithynia; grammarian and poet taken prisoner in the Mithridatic Wars and carried to Rome in 72 BC. He taught Virgil Greek. Peisander of Camirus in Rhodes, epic poet who flourished about 640 BC. Phanocles elegiac poet who probably flourished about the time of Alexander the Great. Pherecrates (5th century BC), Athenian Old Comedy poet and rough contemporary of Cratinus, Crates and Aristophanes. Philemon (poet) (c. 362 BC – c. 262 BC), Athenian New Comedy poet and playwright born either at Soli in Cilicia or at Syracuse in Sicily but moved to Athens some time before 330 BC Philodoppides of Messenia (c. 700 - 640 BC), lyric poet, surviving only in fragmentary form. Believed to have composed a short epic Heleneis. Philitas of Cos (c. 340 – c. 285 BC), Alexandrian poet and critic, founder of the Alexandrian school of poetry Philocles, Athenian tragic poet during the 5th century BCE. Philoxenus of Cythera (435 BC–380 BC) a dithyrambic poet. Phocylides gnomic poet of Miletus, contemporary of Theognis of Megara, born about 560 BC. Phrynichus (comic poet), poet of the Old Attic comedy and contemporary of Aristophanes, flourished around 429 BC. Phrynichus (tragic poet) Philyllius, Athenian comic poet Pindar (c. 522 BC – c. 443 BC) Plato (comic poet)