Menecrates of Ephesus (/məˈnɛkrətiːz/; Ancient Greek: Μενεκράτης ὁ Ἐφέσιος; 330–270 BC) was a Greek didactic poet of the Hellenistic period.
[1] He wrote a poem called the Works which was modeled upon Hesiod's Works and Days and included a discussion of bees based on the work of Aristotle.
He was the teacher of the astronomical poet Aratus.
[2] The few surviving fragments were included by Hermann Diels in the collection Poetarum Philosophorum Fragmenta (1901).
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