Antimachus of Heliopolis () in Egypt was a poet of ancient Greece who was mentioned in the Suda as having written a poem called Cosmopoia (Κοσμοποιΐα), that is, on the creation of the universe, consisting of 3780 hexameter verses.Suda α 2682 Aside from one quotation, the poem is lost to us.
The Byzantine poet John Tzetzes quotes three lines from Antimachus,John Tzetzes, On Lycophron 245 but whether they belong to Antimachus of Heliopolis, or to either of the two other poets of the same name (see Antimachus (disambiguation)), cannot be ascertained.Johann Heinrich Joseph Düntzer, Fragm. der Episch. Poes. von Alexand., &c. p. 97
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