Troilus
Τρώϊλος
(Τρώϊλος), a sophist of some distinction, who taught at Constantinople, under Arcadius and Honorius, at the beginning of the fifth century of our era, was a native of Side in Pamphylia. Among his disciples were Eusebius Scholasticus, Ablabius. a Novatian bishop of Nicaea, and Silvanus, bishop of Philippopolis.
Works
λόγοι πολιτικοί
Troilus wrote, according to Suidas, λόγοι πολιτικοί, and seven books of letters. (Socrat. H. E. 6.6, 7.1, 27; Suid. s.v. Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. vi. p. 140; Clinton, Fast. Rom. s. aa. 401, 408.)
Epigram
There is an epigram in the Greek Anthology on the athlete Lyron, ascribed to a grammarian Troilus, whom Schneider and Jacobs identify with the Sophist; though Fabricius supposes the two persons to be different, without stating his reason.
Further Information
Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. i. p. 498; Brunck, Anal. vol. ii. p. 450; Jacobs, Anth. Graec. vol. iii. p. 155, vol. xiii. p. 962.
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.