Synesius Scholasticus
Byzantine epigrammatist
About Synesius Scholasticus
Synesius Scholasticus was a Byzantine epigrammatist.
Synesius Scholasticus was a Greek poet of the 6th century, who is the author of an epigram preserved in the Greek Anthology on a statue of Hippocrates. He appears to have lived shortly before the destruction of Berytus by an earthquake in 551 CE. Another poem in the Greek Anthology credits him with a victory in battle, possibly against Khosrow I in 540.
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Byzantine epigrammatist
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Synesius Scholasticus was an epigrammatist.
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Synesius Scholasticus was Byzantine.
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