Boios

Boios was a 3rd century BC Greek author. BC, who is only known as the author of a work on the transformation of mythical figures into birds , the poem Ornithogonia ( Greek Ὀρνιθογονία "The Origin of Birds") written in hexameters .

Ovid used his work, Aemilius Macer translated it into Latin. A collection of metamorphosis myths from the second century by Antoninus Liberalis gives very brief summaries of the content of some of these myths collected in the work Ornithogonia .

literature

Georg Knaack : Boio . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 633 f. (then identical to Boio ).
Christoph Selzer: Boios. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 732.

personal data
SURNAME	Boios
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek author
DATE OF BIRTH	4th century BC BC or 3rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	3rd century BC BC or 2nd century BC Chr.