Sosithée
Sosithée is a tragic poet Greek of third century BC We know only few things of its life and its work. It is mentioned by Hygin, Diogène Laërce, in the Souda and in a funerary epigram of Dioscoride in the Palatine Anthologie. He was regarded as one of the seven poets of the ancient Pléïade.
The few biographical data are given by the Souda : he would be of Athens or Syracuse but more surely of Alexandria de Troade.
Its success was flourishing at the time of the 124e Olympiade (284/281 av. J. - C.). He reached us only of the fragments of two of his works. He wrote in worms and prose. He was the rival of Homère the Young person. He seems to be himself inspired (and to have revivified it) of the style of the satyric dramas of the old tragedies.
Among the fragments which reached us, one has those of a Aithlos , quoted by Stobée, and especially those much more consequent of a Daphnis , which tells the history of the Daphnis shepherd in the search of his dulcinée Pimplea as well as king-harvester Lityersès.