Pancrates of Arcadia

Pancrates of Arcadia (Greek: Παγκράτης Ἀρκάς, Latin: Pancrates Arcadius) was a Greek poet of Antiquity born in Arcadia, author of a poem on fishing entitled Halieuticus or Labours of the Sea (Ἁλιευτικά or Θαλάσσια ἔργα), of which Athenaeus of Naucratis has preserved for us three fragments in his work Deipnosophistae.^[1]

He could be the same person as the Pancrates who appears in the Garland of Meleager of Gadara and in the Greek Anthology, but he could also be the Pancrates the musician or poet quoted by Plutarch.^[2]

References

^ Martínez García, Sebastián (2022). "Lectura de los fragmentos del Haliéutico de Páncrates de Arcadia". Florentia Iliberritana. Revista de estudios de la Antigüedad clásica (in Spanish). 33: 247–272. doi:10.30827/floril.v33i.27254. ISSN 1131-8848.
^ Smith, William, ed. (1867). "3. Pancrates". A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. III. Boston: Little, Brown & Comp. p. 110.

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[1] Martínez García, Sebastián (2022). "Lectura de los fragmentos del Haliéutico de Páncrates de Arcadia". Florentia Iliberritana. Revista de estudios de la Antigüedad clásica (in Spanish). 33: 247–272. doi:10.30827/floril.v33i.27254. ISSN 1131-8848.

[2] Smith, William, ed. (1867). "3. Pancrates". A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. III. Boston: Little, Brown & Comp. p. 110.