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Mithaecus

Μίθαικος

(Μίθαικος), the author of some treatises on cookery, quoted by Athenaeus (vii. p. 325, xii. p. 516, iii. p. 112), entitled Ὀφαρτυτικός and Ὀφοποιία σικελική. The latter is also referred to by Plato (Gorg. p. 518b.).

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.