Satyrus ( Greek: Σάτυρος) of Callatis was a distinguished Peripatetic philosopher and historian, whose biographies of famous people are frequently referred to by Diogenes Laërtius and Athenaeus. He came from Callatis Pontica, as was learned from a Herculaneum papyrus. ^[1] He lived earlier than the reign of Ptolemy VI Philometor (181–146 BC) when his Lives were epitomized by Heraclides Lembus, probably during the 3rd century BC. ^[2] Athenaeus frequently refers to him as a Peripatetic, ^[3] but his connection to the Peripatetic school is otherwise unknown. His biographies dealt with many eminent people including kings ( Dionysius the Younger, Philip), statesmen ( Alcibiades), orators ( Demosthenes), poets ( Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides), and philosophers ( Bias of Priene, Chilon of Sparta, Pythagoras, Empedocles, Zeno of Elea, Anaxagoras, Socrates, Diogenes, Anaxarchus, Stilpo). He also wrote on the population of Alexandria, and a work On Characters (Περὶ χαρακτήρων). Fragments of his biography of the Athenian dramatist Euripides were found at the end of a papyrus scroll discovered at Oxyrhynchus in the early twentieth century. ^[4]

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