Halieutica
Corycus (Cilicia)
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Oppian
Oppian
c. 140 CE–c. 190 CE · Corycus (Cilicia)
Oppian of Anazarbus (or Corycus) in Cilicia was a Greek poet active in the later 2nd century CE, under the emperors Marcus Aurelius and Commodus. He wrote the 'Halieutica,' a didactic poem on fishing and the creatures of the sea, dedicated to the emperor. In antiquity a separate poem on hunting was also attributed to him, but it is now generally assigned to a different, later poet from Apamea.
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About Corycus (Cilicia)
Corycus was a coastal town of Cilicia in southern Asia Minor (near modern Kızkalesi, Turkey), associated with the Corycian cave. It is sometimes given as the home of the poet Oppian, author of the Halieutica, a didactic poem on fishing (though Anazarbus in Cilicia is also named in the sources).
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