ARCHESTRATUS  , of

Syracuse or Gela, a Greek poet, who flourished about 330 B.C . After travelling extensively in search of foreign delicacies for the table, he embodied the result in a humorous poem called 'Hhvnr60cm, afterwards freely translated by Ennius under the title Heduphagetica . About 300 lines of this gastronomical poem are preserved in Athenaeus . The writer, who has been styled the Hesiod or Theognis of gluttons, parodies the style of the old gnomic poets; chief attention is paid to details concerning fish . Ribbeck, Archestrati Reliquiae (1877) ; Brandt, Corpusculum Poesis Epicae Graecae ludibundae, i . 1888; Schmid, De Archestrati Gelensis Fragmentis (1896) .