Hippolochus (writer)

Ancient Greek writer
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IntroAncient Greek writer
PlacesGreece
isWriter
Work fieldLiterature
Gender
Male
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Biography

Hippolochus (Greek: Ἱππόλοχος) was a Macedonian writer, a student of Theophrastus, who addressed to his fellow-student Lynceus of Samos a description of a wedding feast in Macedon in the early 3rd century BC. The bridegroom was a certain Caranus, probably a relative of the Caranus who had been a companion of Alexander the Great. The letter survives because it is quoted at length by Athenaeus in the Deipnosophistae.

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