who was philitas of cos?
He was a scholar and poet during the early Hellenistic period of ancient Greece
Philitas of Cos
Philitas of Cos (; , "Philītas ho Kōos"; – ), sometimes spelled Philetas (; , "Philētas"; see Bibliography below), was a scholar and poet during the early Hellenistic period of ancient Greece
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Philitas of Cos [SEP] Introduction
Philitas of Cos (; , "Philītas ho Kōos"; – ), sometimes spelled Philetas (; , "Philētas"; see Bibliography below), was a scholar and poet during the early Hellenistic period of ancient Greece. A Greek associated with Alexandria, he flourished in the second half of the 4th century BC and was appointed tutor to the heir to the throne of Ptolemaic Egypt. He was thin and frail; Athenaeus later caricatured him as an academic so consumed by his studies that he wasted away and died. Philitas was the first major Greek writer who was both a scholar and a poet. His reputation continued for centuries, based on both his pioneering study of words and his verse in elegiac meter.