Rhianus
Greek poet and scholar
Rhianus (born c. 275 bc) was a Greek poet and scholar from Crete and a slave. His only surviving works are 10 or 11 epigrams of some merit preserved in the Greek Anthology and a small number of hexameter fragments. He was best known as an epic poet, producing five epics, though the contents of only one, the Messeniaca, dealing with a 7th-century war between Messene and Sparta, are known. He evidently paid little heed...
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