Pherenicus

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Pherenicus (Greek: Φερένικος) was an epic poet from Heraclea Pontica.[1][2] He treated of Metamorphoses and similar fabulous tales. Athenaeus attributes to him the statement that the daughters of Hamadryas and Oxylus were various hamadryad nymphs, associated with different types of trees.[3][4] Tzetzes speaks of him as one of those who treated of the monstrous and fabulous forms of men,[5] and quotes from him two lines respecting the Hyperboreans.[6][7]

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  1. Sandin, Pär (2014). "Famous Hyperboreans". Nordlit. 33: 214.
  2. Beck, Hans (Cologne); Fornaro, Sotera (Sassari); Portmann, Werner (Berlin) (2006-10-01), "Pherenicus", Brill’s New Pauly, Brill, retrieved 2022-07-11
  3. Larson, Jennifer, Greek Nymphs: Myth, Cult, Lore, Oxford and New York, Oxford University Press, 2001. ISBN 0195122941. p. 283 n. 31.
  4. Athenaeus. "14". Deipnosophistaí Δειπνοσοφισταί [The Deiphnosophists] (in Greek). Vol. III. p. 78b.
  5. Tzetzes. "144: Περι του και ει τι τουτων ψευδεπινουστερον". Chiliades (in Greek). Vol. VII.
  6. comp. Schol. ad Pind. Ol. iii. 28.
  7. Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Pherenicus". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 3. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. p. 259.