Ancient Greek didactic poets

Hesiod ( or ; Hēsíodos; ) was an Ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer.

thumb|right|220px|Aratus of Soli Aratus (; ; c. 315/310 240 BC) was a Greek didactic poet. His major extant work is his hexameter poem Phenomena (, Phainómena, "Appearances"; ), the first half of which is a verse setting of a lost work of the same name by Eudoxus of Cnidus. It describes the constellations and other celestial phenomena. The second half is called the Diosemeia (Διοσημεῖα "Forecasts"), and is chiefly about weather lore. Although Aratus was somewhat ignorant of Greek astronomy, his poem was very popular in the Greek and Roman world, as is proven by the large number of commentaries

thumb|200px|Nicander, Theriaca, 10th century, Constantinople Nicander of Colophon (; fl. 2nd century BC) was a Greek poet, physician, and grammarian.

Archestratus ( Archestratos) was an ancient Greek poet of Gela, Magna Graecia, in Sicily, who wrote some time in the mid 4th century BCE, and was known as "the Daedalus of tasty dishes". His humorous didactic poem Hedypatheia ('Life of Luxury'), written in hexameters but known only from quotations, advises a gastronomic reader on where to find the best food in the Mediterranean world. The writer, who was styled in antiquity the Hesiod or Theognis of gluttons, parodies the pithy style of older gnomic poets; most of his attention is given to fish, although some fragments refer to appetizers, and

Oppian (, ; ), also known as Oppian of Anazarbus, of Corycus, or of Cilicia, was a 2nd-century Greco-Roman poet during the reign of the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, who composed the Halieutica, a five-book didactic epic on fishing.

Pseudo-Oppian (, Oppianós; ), sometimes referred to as Oppian of Apamea or Oppian of Syria, was a Greco-Syrian poet during the reign of the emperor Caracalla. His work, a Greek didactic epic poem on hunting called the Cynegetica (), has been erroneously ascribed to Oppian of Anazarbus. The real name of Pseudo-Oppian is not known.

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