Agathias Scholasticus (M)

Surname: Agathias
Nationality: Greek. VIAF.
Poet, lawyer, and historian. Born in c. 532 C.E. Died in c. 580 C.E. From Myrina. Educated in Alexandria. Lived in Constantinople. Practiced as a lawyer and wrote poetry. Author of Histories and Daphniaca. Biographical information: Oxford Reference. (AC, DD, CC, BGL)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 9
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
XIII. “The fruit of Bacchus in profusion spread” 1835-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11648
IV. Epitaph on His Sister Eugenia 1835-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11524
V. “A certain fisher labouring at his trade” 1836-03 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11741
VIII. On Ariadne a Harpist 1836-04 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11771
VI. “The livelong night I spend in wo” 1836-06 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11828
III. On the Same Subject 1836-08 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 11844
IV. Agathias the Scholiast to Paul to Silentiary 1837-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14096
II. On the Picture of a Satyr Holding a Pipe to his Ear and Listening to its Music 1837-02 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14092
On Troy 1837-10 Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine Poet 14633