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Christodorus

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Christodorus (Christodoros), a Greek poet of Coptus in Egypt, was the son of Paniscus, and flourished in the reign of Anastasius I., A. D. 491-518. He is classed by Suidas as an epic poet (epopoios). There is still extant a poem of 416 hexameter verses, in which he describes the statues in the public gymnasium of Zeuxippus. This gymnasium was built by Septimius Severus at Byzantium, and was burnt down A. D. 532. The poem of Christodorus is entitled Ekphrasis ton aalmaton ton ein to demosion gumnadion ta epikaloumenon tou Zeuxipou. It is printed in the Antiq. Constantinop. of Anselmus Banduri, Par. 1711, Venet. 1729, and in the Greek Anthology. He also wrote:
Isaurika, a poem, in six books, on the taking of Isauria by Anastasius.
Three books of Epigrams, of which two epigrams remain. (Anthol. Graec.)
Four books of Letters.
Patria, epic poems on the history and antiquities of various places, among which were Constantinople, Thessalonica, Nacle near Heliopolis, Miletus, Tralles, Aphrodisias, and perhaps others.
  Suidas and Eudocia mention another person of the same name a native of Thebes, who wrote Ixeutika di epon and Thaumata ton hagion anaguron (where Kuster proposes to read marturon Kosma kai Damianou. (Suidas, s. r. Christodoros and Zeuxippos; Eudocia)

This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks

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