Polystratus

1. An eminent Epicurean philosopher, who succeeded Hermarchus as head of the sect, and was himself succeeded by Dionysius. (Diog. Laicrt. 10.25.) Valerius Maximus relates that Polystratus and Hippocleides were born on the same day, followed the sect of the same master Epicurus, shared their patrimony in common, and supported the school together, and at last died at the same moment in extreme old age. (1.8. ext. § 17.)

2. An epigrammatic poet, who had a place in the Garland of Meleager. Works Epigrams

There are two of his epigrams in the Greek Anthology, one of which is on the destruction of Corinth, which took place in B. C. 146. He must therefore have lived some time within the seventy or eighty years preceding the time of Meleager, and probably soon after the taking of Corinth. Polystratus of Letopolis probably not the same

A certain Polystratus, of Letopolis in Egypt, is mentioned by Stephanus Byzantinus (s. v. Λητοῦς πόλις), but there is nothing to indicate whether he was the same person as the epigrammatist. Further Information

Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 1 ; Jacobs, Antk. Graec. vol. ii. p. 1, vol. xiii. p. 941. [P.S]

of Ambracia, a statuary, mentioned only by Tatian, who ascribes to him a statue of Phalaris which stood at Agrigentum, and was very much admired. (Tatian, ad v. Graec. 54. p. 118, ed. Worth.) [P.S]