Ancient Greek & Roman

Colluthus

fl. c. AD 500


Colluthus of Lycopolis was a Theban poet who flourished in the late 5th or early 6th century AD. His only surviving work is the epyllion The Rape of Helen; according to the Suda he also wrote the lost Calydoniaca, Persica and Encoinia.

  1. The Rape of Helen — translated by A. W. Mair (1928)

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