Archytas of Amphissa

Archytas (Ancient Greek: Ἀρχύτας) of Amphissa was a Greek poet who was probably a contemporary of Euphorion of Chalcis, about 300 BCE, since it was a matter of doubt with the ancients themselves whether the epic poem Γέρανος (Geranos) was the work of Archytas or Euphorion.^[1]

Plutarch quotes from him a hexameter verse concerning the country of the Ozolian Locrians.^[2] Two other lines, which he is said to have inserted in the poem Hermes of Eratosthenes, are preserved in the writings of Stobaeus.^[3] He seems to have been the same person whom Diogenes Laërtius calls an epigrammatist,^[4] and upon whom Bion of Smyrna wrote an epigram which he quotes.^[5]