Bion of Smyrna
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Bion was an ancient Greek bucolic poet from Smyrna, probably active at the end of the second or beginning of the first century BC. He is named in the Suda as one of three canonical bucolic poets along
Bion's longest surviving poem is a lament for Adonis, whose death is depicted in this painting by Peter Paul Rubens.
Heliodorus of Emesa
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Heliodorus Emesenus or Heliodorus of Emesa is the author of the ancient Greek novel called the Aethiopica or Theagenes and Chariclea, which has been dated to the 220s or 370s AD.
A manuscript of the Aethiopica (Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Gr. 410, fol. 94v)
