Ananius (Greek: Ἀνάνιος) was a Greek iambic poet, contemporary with Hipponax (about 540 BCE). The invention of the satyric iambic verse called Scazon is ascribed to him as well as to Hipponax.^[1] Some fragments of Ananius are preserved by Athenaeus,^[2] and all that is known of him was collected by Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker in the 19th century.^[3]

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 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, Philip (1870). "Ananius". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 158.