Nicander

Nicander of Colophon (Ancient Greek: Νίκανδρος ὁ Κολοφώνιος, romanized: Níkandros ho Kolophṓnios; fl.

He was born at Claros (Ahmetbeyli in modern Turkey), near Colophon, where his family held the hereditary priesthood of Apollo.

The longest, Theriaca, is a hexameter poem (958 lines) on the nature of venomous animals and the wounds which they inflict.

[a] Among his lost works, Heteroeumena was a mythological epic, used by Ovid in the Metamorphoses and epitomized by Antoninus Liberalis; Georgica,[1] of which considerable fragments survive, was perhaps imitated by Virgil.

16), imitated by Ovid and Lucan, and frequently quoted by Pliny and other writers[1] (e.g., Tertullian in De Scorpiace, I, 1).