Menecrates of Ephesus

Menecrates of Ephesus (Μενεκράτης ὁ Ἐφέσιος; 330–270 BC) was a Greek didactic poet of the Hellenistic period. He wrote a poem called the Works which was modeled upon Hesiod's Works and Days and included a discussion of bees based on the work of Aristotle. He was the teacher of the astronomical poet Aratus. The few surviving fragments were included by Hermann Diels in the collection Poetarum Philosophorum Fragmenta (1901).