Sopater of Paphos (Ancient Greek: Σώπατρος ὁ Πάφιος)[1] was a 3rd-century BC parodist and playwright.
According to Atheneus, Sopater lived in the time of Alexander the Great, and "was still alive in the reign of the second king of Egypt".
[4] A few of Sopater's works are known to us through Atheneus' Deipnosophistae, these are: Bacchus, Eubulotheombrutus, Pylaeus and Phacis are described in the ancient source as dramas.
Other sources like the 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia Suidas count nine works in total: Hippolytus, Physiologus, Silpho, Cnidia, Nekia, Pylaeus, Orestes, Phacis and Bacchus.
Sopatros, in addition to the indicative of his Paphos descent, is called a parodist and a psalicographer in Athenaeus, and a comedian in Suidas.