---
name: Cercidas of Megalopolis
name_greek: Κερκίδας ὁ Μεγαλοπολίτης
eul_aid: ioi
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/authors/cercidas-of-megalopolis-ioi"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Doric (frg)
works_count: 1
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Cercidas of Megalopolis

*Κερκίδας ὁ Μεγαλοπολίτης*

**eul_aid:** `ioi` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/authors/cercidas-of-megalopolis-ioi)

Cercidas, a 3rd century BCE poet and statesman from Megalopolis. Fragments of his Doric verse survive. Free to read and download from the Greek library archive.

## Works

- [Fragments of Cynic Satire](https://eulogikon.org/works/cercidas-megalopolis-cynic-satire-ioi-aa) — *Ἀποσπάσματα τῆς Κυνικῆς Σατύρας* · `ioi-aa`

## License and provenance

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