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Headword:
Hermias
Adler number: epsilon,3040
Translated headword: Hermias
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The eunuch, of
Atarneus (it is a place in
Mysia in Asia close to the Hellespont,[1] which he also ruled as a subject of the Persian king). He became a eunuch and slave of Euboulos, a Bithynian dynast and philosopher. Having been educated in the school of
Aristotle,[2] he wrote
On the Soul, that it is immortal.[3]
This man is "the thrice-sold eunuch".[4] He was well-disposed towards
Aristotle and gave his adopted daughter in marriage to the philosopher.[5]
They write [sc. the name of] this
Hermias with iota only;[6] for the following verse is found among the iambic verses of
Hipponax: "a eunuch and slave,
Hermias ruled [sc.
Atarneus]".[7]
This man, despite being castrated, inseminated his own wife and begat by her his daughter Pythias.[8]
See concerning these matters under '
Aristotle, son of
Nicomachus'.[9] Note well how many degenerated from philosophy into tyranny.
Hermias, ho eunouchos, Atarneus [chôra de esti Musias tês en Asiai tês pros tôi Hellêspontôi, hês kai êrche basileôs tou Persôn hupêkoos], eunouchos kai doulos genomenos Euboulou Bithunou dunastou kai philosophou, askêtheis paideian para Aristotelei egrapse peri psuchês, hoti athanatos. houtos estin ho eunouchos ho tripratos. oikeiôs de diekeito pros Aristotelên kai tên thetên autou thugatera edôke tôi philosophôi. touton de ton Hermian monon graphousi dia tou i: en gar tois tou Hippônaktos stichois iambikois heurêtai stichos houtôs: eunouchos ôn kai doulos êrchen Hermias. hoti houtos, kaitoi thladias ôn, espeire tên heautou gunaika kai eteken ex autês tên Puthiada thugatera autou. zêtei peri toutôn en tôi Aristotelês, huios Nikomachou. sêmeiôsai posoi ek philosophias eis turannida metepeson.
Notes:
C4 BC. See generally OCD(4) 670, '
Hermias(1)'.
[1] Barrington Atlas map 56 grid D3.
[2]
Strabo (13.1.57) states that
Hermias attended the lectures of
Plato and
Aristotle in
Athens.
[3] Wormell (p. 90) conjectures that the Suda may have confused
Hermias of
Atarneus with Hermeias of Alexandria; see
epsilon 3036.
Aristotle also wrote a work
On the Soul.
[4]
Menander,
Sikyonios 11 (formerly
Comica adespota fr. 884 Kock). 'Thrice-sold' probably has the sense of 'a sly fox'; see Wormell p.90.
[5] This paragraph comes from Harpokration s.v.; similar entries in
Photius (and, post-Suda,
Etymologicum Magnum).
Hermias' daughter was Pythias: see below, and
alpha 3929.
[6] That is, not Hermeias (as in
epsilon 3036 and
alpha 3929). See
Choeroboscus in
Etymologicum Magnum 376.25.
[7] The attribution of the verse to
Hipponax is incorrect. The verse derives from
Helladius Besantinoos. See Wormell p.91.
[8] On
qladi/as, one whose testicles have been crushed, see
epsilon 1474.
[9]
alpha 3929; cf.
alpha 3930.
P. Harding, Didymos on Demosthenes. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), pp. 57-65 (text); 124-162 (commentary)
Wormell, D.E.W., 'The literary tradition concerning Hermias of Atarneus', Yale Classical Studies 5 (1935), pp.56-92
Jaeger, W., Aristotle. Fundamentals of the history of his development, 2nd ed. trans. R. Robinson, Oxford, 1948, pp.111-121, 288-290
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Translated by: Tony Natoli on 31 March 2002@02:13:01.
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