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Bion of Phlossa
Bion of Phlossa
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Bion of Phlossa (fl. c. 100 BCE), also known as Bion of Smyrna, was a Greek bucolic poet active in the late second or early first century BCE. According to the Suda, he came from Phlossa, a locality near Smyrna in Ionia (modern İzmir, Turkey). The ancient canon of pastoral poets grouped him with Theocritus and Moschus as the third of the genre's principal exponents. His best-known surviving work is the Epitaph of Adonis (Lament for Adonis), a ninety-eight-line hexameter lament on the death of Adonis and the mourning of Aphrodite; about seventeen shorter fragments are also attributed to him. His exact birth and death years are not recorded.
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About Smyrna
Smyrna, modern İzmir on the Aegean coast of Turkey, was an ancient Greek city refounded in the fourth century BCE and, under Rome, a leading port of the province of Asia. It was a centre of rhetoric: the sophist Marcus Antonius Polemon taught there, the orator Aelius Aristides was closely associated with it, and it was one of several places claiming to be Homer's birthplace. Its church is one of the seven addressed in the Book of Revelation, and its second-century bishop Polycarp, to whom Ignatius of Antioch wrote and whom Irenaeus knew in his youth, was martyred there. The mathematician Theon of Smyrna and the epic poet Quintus Smyrnaeus take their names from the city.