ARCHESTRATUS, of Syracuse or Gela, a Greek poet, who flourished about 330 B.C. After travelling in search of foreign delicacies for the table, he embodied the result in a humorous poem called `HBviraOEia, afterwards freely translated by Ennius under the title Heduplcagetica. About 300 lines of his poem, which parodies the style of the old gnomic poets, are preserved in Athenaeus.
See Ribbeck, Archestrati Reliquiae (1877) ; Brandt, Corpusculum Poesis Epicae Graecae ludibundae, i. i888 ; Schmid, De Archestrati Gelensis Fragmentis (1896) .