Poseidippus

Poseidippus or Posidippus (Ποσείδιππος or Ποσίδιππος) is a Greek theophoric name. It may refer to a number of individuals from classical antiquity, including:


 * Poseidippus or Posidippus (comic poet), c. 316–250 BC, a celebrated poet of the New Comedy at Athens, known for his novel use of language, and influence on the Latin poets.
 * Poseidippus or Posidippus of Pella, c. 310–240 BC, an epigrammatic poet at Samos and Alexandria, some of whose poems are included in the Greek Anthology.
 * Poseidippus, a historian who wrote about Cnidus, and whose work discusses the Venus of Praxiteles. He may be identical with the epigrammatist.
 * Poseidippus, a priest of Persephone at Pella.
 * Poseidippus, son of Eupolis, stephanophorus (chief magistrate) of Miletus during the reign of Seleucus I.