Ancient Tegeans

thumb|right|Illustration of Anyte by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer, for [[Renée Vivien's Les Kitharèdes]] Anyte of Tegea (; ) was a Hellenistic poet from Tegea in Arcadia. Little is known of her life, but twenty-four epigrams attributed to her are preserved in the Greek Anthology, and one is quoted by Julius Pollux; nineteen of these are generally accepted as authentic. She introduced rural themes to the genre, which became a standard theme in Hellenistic epigrams. She is one of the nine outstanding ancient women poets listed by Antipater of Thessalonica in the Palatine Anthology. Her pastoral poetry ma

mythical character

In Greek mythology, Echemus (; , Ekhemos) was the Tegean king of Arcadia who succeeded Lycurgus.

ancient Greek writer