Euenus (orEvenus) ofParos, (Greek:Εὔηνος ὁ Πάριος), was a 5th-century BCpoet^[1] who was roughly contemporary withSocrates.^[2]

Euenus is mentioned several times inPlato'sPhaedo,Phaedrus, andApology of Socrates. According to Maximus Tyre,^[3] Evenus was the instructor ofSocrates in poetry, a statement which derives some countenance from a passage in Plato^[4] from which it may also be inferred that Euenus was alive at the time of Socrates's death, but at such an advanced age that he was likely soon to follow him. Eusebius^[5] places him at the 30th Olympiad (B. C. 460) and onwards. His poetry was gnomic, that is, it formed the vehicle for expressing philosophic maxims and opinions. The first six of the epigrams in theGreek Anthology which bear the name "Euenus" are of this character, and may therefore be ascribed to him with tolerable certainty. Perhaps, too, the fifteenth should be assigned to him.

• Simmias of Thebes

• Nails, Debra (2002).The People of Plato: A Prosopography of Plato and Other Socratics. Hackett Publishing.ISBN 978-1-60384-027-9.
• West,Iambi et elegi Graeci ante Alexandrum cantati, vol. 1 (1989) & 2 (1992).

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