Life Boethus of Tarsus was a Greek poet active in the 1st century BCE. His biography is obscure, recorded only by the preservation of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology. He should be distinguished from the Stoic philosopher Boethus of Sidon, a student of Diogenes of Babylon.

His sole attested work is an epigram in the Greek Anthology, a dedicatory poem to Pan and the Nymphs for the salvation of a ship from a storm. No other poems or collections are documented.

Boethus is a minor figure whose significance lies in his contribution to the corpus of Hellenistic epigrammatic poetry. His surviving epigram provides a concise example of the dedicatory genre from his period.