abstract:Ibycus () (floruit: 2nd half of 6th century BC) was an Ancient Greek lyric poet, a citizen of Rhegium in Magna Graecia, probably active at Samos during the reign of the tyrant PolycratesDavid A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poetry, Bristol Classical Press (1982), page 305 and numbered by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria in the canonical list of nine lyric poets.