Philiscus

Phĭliscus, ī, m. , poète tragique grec : Plin. 35, 106 || auteur qui a écrit sur les abeilles : Plin. 11, 19 || nom dʼun peintre de Rhodes : Plin. 35, 143.

Philiscus

(Φιλίσκος). (1) A Greek tragedian of Corcyra, in the first half of the third century b.c.; he was priest of Dionysus in Alexandria, and, as such, stood at the head of the Dionysiac guild of actors in that city. He was one of the “Pleiad” of Alexandrian tragic poets. His portrait is preserved in a relief in the Lateran Museum. He wrote forty-two dramas.

(2) A Rhodian sculptor of about B.C. 146 (Pliny , Pliny H. N. xxxvi. 34).