OPPIAN (Oppianos)

Oppian; Oppianos, of Apamea on the Orontes in Syria, first half of III in. n. e., Greek poet. Posted in 212-217 years. dedicated to the Emperor Caracalla didactic poem about hunting (Kynegetika) in 4 books, which described the ways and history of hunting, he also wrote about the animals, which usually hunt. On Style. rhetorical, but the language is often not very correct, and the metric careless.