Ancient Greek pseudepigrapha

work by Pseudo-Apollodorus, a compendium of Greek myths

In Greek mythology, Melampus (; ) was a legendary soothsayer and healer, originally of Pylos, who ruled at Argos. He was the introducer of the worship of Dionysus, according to Herodotus, who asserted that his powers as a seer were derived from the Egyptians and that he could understand the language of animals. A number of pseudepigraphal works of divination were circulated in Classical and Hellenistic times under the name Melampus. According to Herodotus and Pausanias (vi.17.6), on the authority of Hesiod, his father was Amythaon, whose name implies the "ineffable" or "unspeakably great"; thu

pseudepigraphal Hellenistic work of the 2nd century BCE

Egyptian-Greek wisdom text

Perictione ( Periktiónē; ) was the mother of the Greek philosopher Plato.

Pseudo-Plutarch is the conventional name given to the actual, but unknown, authors of a number of pseudepigrapha attributed to Plutarch but now known not to have been written by him. Some of these works were included in editions of Plutarch's Moralia.

Pseudo-Aristotle is a general cognomen for authors of philosophical or medical treatises who attributed their works to the Greek philosopher Aristotle, or whose work was later attributed to him by others. Such falsely attributed works are known as pseudepigrapha. The term Corpus Aristotelicum covers both the authentic and spurious works of Aristotle.

ancient Greek periplus

literary work

pseudo-Aristotelian treatise covering many topics

Poimandres (; also known as Poemandres, Poemander or Pimander) is the first tractate in the Corpus Hermeticum, named after its main character Poimandres, the nous of a supreme deity.

literary work

work by Pseudo-Xenophon

Pseudo-Scymnus is the name given by Augustus Meineke to the unknown author of a work on geography written in Classical Greek, the Periodos to Nicomedes. It is an account of the world (periegesis) in 'comic' iambic trimeters which is dedicated to a King Nicomedes of Bithynia. This is either Nicomedes II Epiphanes who reigned from 149 BC for an unknown number of years or his son, Nicomedes III Euergetes. The author explicitly takes for his model Apollodorus of Athens, whose chronography in trimeters was dedicated to King Attalus II Philadelphus of Pergamum.

Anacreontea () is the title given to a collection of some sixty Greek poems on the topics of wine, beauty, erotic love, and the worship of Dionysus. The poems themselves appear to have been composed over a long period of time, dating to between the 1st century BC and the 6th century AD, and is attributed pseudepigraphically to Anacreon.

Physiognomonics (; ) is an Ancient Greek pseudo-Aristotelian treatise on physiognomy attributed to Aristotle (and part of the Corpus Aristotelicum). It is a Peripatetic work, dated to the 4th/3rd century BC.

The speeches of Pseudo-Demosthenes are those preserved among the speeches of Demosthenes, but not thought to have been authored by him.

work by Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

ancient Hermetic treatise

ancient Greek prosecution speech