Euenus of Paros was a Greek poet and sophist active in the latter half of the 5th century BCE. He is known primarily through references in Plato and Aristotle, which depict him as a teacher of poetic composition in Athens and a contemporary of Socrates. The Byzantine Suda encyclopedia confirms his origin from Paros, lists him as a philosopher, poet, and rhetorician, and notes his association with the sophistic practice of teaching for a fee.
His work survives only in fragments, credited chiefly to elegiac poetry. No specific titles are recorded; his legacy consists of gnomic verses quoted by later authors like Plato and Aristotle.
Euenus represents an intellectual at the intersection of poetry and the sophistic tradition. His significance lies in his treatment as a referenced authority by major philosophers; Plato situates him within the Athenian intellectual milieu, while Aristotle cites his verses as repositories of proverbial wisdom on ethics and conduct.