Europa
Syracuse (Sicily)
M
Moschus
Moschus
? · Syracuse (Sicily)
Moschus (fl. c. 150 BCE) was a Greek bucolic poet and grammarian from Syracuse in Sicily, conventionally grouped with the Alexandrian pastoral poets alongside Theocritus and Bion. Ancient sources (the Suda and a note attached to one of his poems) describe him as a pupil of the grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace, placing his activity around the middle of the second century BCE; his birth and death dates are not attested. His surviving work, composed in dactylic hexameter and the Doric dialect, is largely mythological and erotic rather than strictly pastoral. It includes the epyllion Europa, on the abduction of Europa by Zeus, and the short poem Eros Drapeta ("Runaway Love"), in which Aphrodite advertises for her escaped son Eros. He is also credited with bucolic fragments and an elegiac epigram. His grammatical work does not survive.
Life journeyclick any stop, or use ←/→
✦
Stop 1 of 1
Syracuse (Sicily)Magna Graecia
We know they were here, but the specifics of what they did at this stop aren’t recorded yet in our corpus.
About Syracuse (Sicily)
Syracuse is a city on the southeastern coast of Sicily, Italy. Founded by colonists from Corinth around 733 BCE it became one of the largest cities of the Greek world, resisting both Athens and Carthage. Plato visited three times, hoping to influence its rulers Dionysius I and II, and the comic poet Epicharmus and the pastoral poet Theocritus are associated with it. The mathematician Archimedes was killed when Rome took the city in 212 BCE, after which it became the capital of Roman Sicily. According to the Book of Acts, Paul stayed there for three days, and its early Christian catacombs survive. It was briefly the Byzantine capital (663-668) before the Arab conquest of 878.