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Burichus

Βούριχος

(Βούριχος), one of the commanders of Demetrius Poliorcetes in the sea-fight off Cyprus, B. C. 306, was one of the flatterers of the king, to whom the Athenians erected an altar and a heroum. (Diod. 20.52; Athen. 6.253a.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.