Satyrus
4. A distinguished Peripatetic philosopher and historian, who lived in the time of Ptolemy Philopator, if not later.
Works
Biographies
Satyrus wrote a collection of biographies, among which were lives of Philip and Demosthenes, and which is frequently cited by ancient writers.
Other works
He also wrote on the population of Alexandria; and a work Περὶ χαρακτήρων.
Furhter Information
Vossius, de Hist. Graec. p. 495, ed. Westermann; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iii. pp. 51, 504.
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.