Nicostratus of Macedonia () was a rhetorician who lived in the 2nd century AD. He lived during the reign of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius.A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood., NicostratusSuda, Nikostratus
The Suda states that he was a contemporary of the rhetorician Aelius Aristides and of Dio Chrysostom. It also places Nicostratus amongst ten rhetoricians in a second category, distinct from the Ten Attic Orators of the earlier period. The Suda also states that some of his works were Decamythia (; Ten Myths), Images (), Polymythia (; A Multitude of Myths) and Thalattourgoi (; Seaworkers). It also states that he wrote many other works, including encomia addressed to Emperor Marcus Aurelius and to other persons.
Philostratus, in the Lives of the Sophists, praised the elegance of Nicostratus style. Fragments of Nicostratus are preserved in FGrHist 1089.Müller-Jacoby Table of Concordance, FGrHist 1089 Nicostratus' works are lost.
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