Pseudo-Oppian

His work, a Greek didactic epic poem on hunting called the Cynegetica (Κυνηγετικά), has been erroneously ascribed to Oppian of Anazarbus.

[8] Later scholarship has uncovered further evidence to back up this claim: there are considerable differences in the two poems' style and adherence to the metrical norms of Hellenistic scholars.

[9] The Halieutica is the main source for the Cynegetica's structure and content, with specific passages in the latter poem alluding to or reworking their model.

[11] Although some scholars have assumed that the Cynegetica's poet was also coincidentally named Oppian, there is no evidence to back up this claim.

The Cynegetica has often been compared unfavourably to its main model, Oppian's Halieutica, on the basis of its relative neglect of the Alexandrian metrical refinements and its highly rhetorical style.