Athanadas (Ancient Greek: Ἀθανάδας) was a writer of ancient Greece. We know from the writer Antoninus Liberalis that he wrote a work on the city of Ambracia, titled Ambrakika (Ἀμβρακικά), but none of his works survive. His time is unknown, but the scholar Felix Jacoby believed he lived around the 3rd century BCE, and was a native of Ambracia.
There was also a probably unrelated man of this name—Athenadas of Rhegium, son of Zopyros—who was a citharode who performed in the Delphic Soteria in 150 BCE.
References
- Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 100.4
- McGlew, James F. (2018). Tyranny and Political Culture in Ancient Greece. Cornell University Press. p. 175. ISBN 9781501728723. Retrieved 2024-08-27.
- Felix Jacoby, Fragmente der griechischen Historiker iv. 343f
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Mason, Charles Peter (1870). "Athanadas". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 393.