---
name: Nicias of Nicaea
name_greek: Νικίας ὁ Νικαεύς
eul_aid: lpo
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/authors/nicias-of-nicaea-lpo"
period: Hellenistic
dialect: Koine
works_count: 1
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# Nicias of Nicaea

*Νικίας ὁ Νικαεύς*

**eul_aid:** `lpo` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/authors/nicias-of-nicaea-lpo)

Nicias of Nicaea was a Hellenistic historian of the 3rd century BCE. His surviving historical works are in Greek. Free to download from the Greek archive.

## Works

- [On the Arcadian Beauty Contest](https://eulogikon.org/works/nicias-nicaea-arcadian-beauty-contest-lpo-aa) — *Ἀπόσπασμα* · `lpo-aa`

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