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Headword:
Dêmêtrios
Adler number: delta,429
Translated headword: Demetrius, Demetrios
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Phanostratus, of Phalerum (Phalerum is a harbour in Attica);[1] he was called Phanus at first;[2] a Peripatetic philosopher. He wrote on philosophy, history, rhetoric and politics, and about poets. He studied with
Theophrastus,[3] and was a demagogue in
Athens. He composed numerous books. He was so handsome that the slander arose that he had been the beloved of Neon,[4] and he was called by some Lampeto and Charitoblepharus.[5] He rose to great glory and power, but because of envy he was out-witted; he was exiled by the Athenians, and went to Egypt, where he lived with
Ptolemy Soter; he died of an asp's bite, and was buried in the Busirite nome, near to Diospolis in the marshes.[6]
When[7] the father of
Demetrius Poliorcetes[8] was an old man, the hopes of the kingdom brought to him in succession both command and the good will of the masses. He was outstanding in beauty and stature, and when arrayed in the royal armour he was distinguished and awe-inspiring, a fact by which he created high expectations in most people. Moreover, he had a certain mildness, appropriate to a young king, by which he excited everyone's enthusiasm, so that even people who were not enlisted came together to hear him, sympathetically anxious on account of his youth and the imminent crisis because of their partisanship.
Dêmêtrios, Phanostratou, Phalêreus [Phalêron de limên tês Attikês], hos to prôton Phanos ekaleito: philosophos Peripatêtikos. gegraphe philosopha te kai historika kai rhêtorika kai politika kai peri poiêtôn. êkroasato de Theophrastou kai dêmagôgos Athênêsi gegone. sunegrapse de suchna biblia. houtôs ên de sphodra euprepês hôs kai diabolên labein, hoti gegonen erômenos Neônos, kai prosagoreuthênai hupo tinôn auton Lampetô kai Charitoblepharon. eis mega de artheis doxês kai epikrateias hupo tou phthonou katestratêgêthê kai exelatheis hupo Athênaiôn eis Aigupton êlthe kai para tôi Sôtêri Ptolemaiôi diatribôn dêchtheis hupo aspidos apethane kai etaphê en tôi Bousiritêi nomôi, plêsion Diospoleôs tês en tois helesi. tou patros de êdê gegêrakotos Dêmêtriou tou Poliorkêtou, hai tês basileias elpides es tên toutou diadochên êgon hama tên archên kai tên tôn hoplôn eunoian. ên de tôi kallei kai megethei diaphoros, eti de kai kekosmêmenos hoplois basilikois eiche pollên huperochên kai kataplêxin, di' hês eis elpidas hadras êge tous pollous: pros de toutois praotês tis ên peri auton, harmozousa neôi basilei, di' hês eis prothumian exekaleito pantas hôste kai tous ektos taxeôs sundramein epi tên akroasin, sunagôniôntas têi neotêti kai têi mellousêi ginesthai krisei dia tês parataxeôs.
Notes:
C4/early 3 BC. See generally RE Demetrios(85); NP Demetrios(4); OCD4
Demetrius(3); FGrH 228.
[1] cf.
phi 46.
[2] This clause perhaps refers to Phanostratus, not
Demetrius himself: so e.g. J.K. Davies,
Athenian Propertied Families 600-300 BC (Oxford 1971). In any event, Davies points out that Phanos is a typical slave's name, which ties in with other allegations (in
Diogenes Laertius 5.76 and elsewhere) that the family was of servile origin
[3] [
theta 199]
Theophrastus = 18.5 FHS&G.
[4] Differently in Diog.Laert. 5.76: the name is not Neon but Kleon. However, the same relationship between the two men --
Demetrius the younger -- is being described:
u(po\ *Kle/wnos peponqe/nai is translated by R.D. Hicks in the Loeb edition as 'suffered violence from Cleon', but more precisely the verb
pa/sxein here should be understood as submitting to homoerotic advances; cf. K.J. Dover,
Greek Homosexuality (London 1978) 140 n.7.
[5] Lampito in Diog.Laert. 5.76. Either way, these two (nick)names refer to the beauty of his eyes.
[6] The foregoing =
Demetrius 2 SOD (P. Stork, J.M. van Ophuijsen, T. Dorandi, "
Demetrius of Phalerum: the sources, text, and translation," in W. Fortenbaugh and E. Schütrumpf (eds),
Demetrius of Phalerum: Text, Translation and Discussion, New Brunswick, NJ, 2000, 1-310.)
[7] This material comes from
Diodorus Siculus 19.81.3-4 (via
Excerpta Constantiniana EV I 249.12-21).
[8]
Demetrius Poliorcetes, king of Macedon: RE Demetrios(33); NP Demetrios(2); OCD3
Demetrius(4). His father was Antigonus.
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 9 May 2000@18:02:26.
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