Cynegetica
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Oppian of Apamea
Oppian of Apamea
c. 175 CE–c. 220 CE · Apamea
Oppian of Apamea (active later 2nd or early 3rd century CE) is the name given to the Greek poet of the Cynegetica, a didactic poem in verse on hunting that describes wild animals and the techniques of the chase. He is conventionally distinguished from the earlier Oppian of Cilicia, author of a poem on fishing, the two having long been confused in ancient and later tradition.
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Apamea on the Orontes, in northwestern Syria near modern Qalaat al-Madiq, was a major Hellenistic city founded by the Seleucids. It was a significant philosophical center: the Stoic Posidonius and the Neopythagorean/Middle Platonist Numenius were both natives, and the Neoplatonist Iamblichus founded his influential school there in the early fourth century AD.
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