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Moschion

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Moschion (Greek: Μοσχίων) is the name of:

  • Moschion (tragic poet), Greek tragic poet of the 3rd century BC
  • Moschion (physician), Greek physician of the 1st century AD or before, known through quotations by other medical writers
  • Muscio, author of a treatise on gynecology in Latin (ca. AD 500), which was translated into Greek and known under the name Moschion
  • Minor figures:
    • Moschion, Athenian sculptor mentioned in Winckelmann's History of Ancient Art
    • Moschion, notorious parasite mocked by Alexis
    • Moschion, chef employed by Demetrius Phalereus
    • Moschion, character in several plays of Menander (including Samia and Perikeiromene)
    • Moschion, paradoxographer of the 3rd or 2nd century BC (FGrHist 575) whose description of the Syracusia is quoted by Athenaeus
    • Moschion, father of Daetondas of Sicyon