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Headword:
Ephoros
Adler number: epsilon,3953
Translated headword: Ephoros, Ephorus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: of
Kyme and Theopompos, son of Damasistratos, of
Chios;[1] both students of
Isocrates,[2] but from the start they were opposites of one another in terms both of character and of discourse. Ephoros, you see, was simple in character, and in the interpretation of history laid-back and lazy and devoid of intensity; Theopompos, meanwhile, was jaundiced and ill-tempered in character, but in expression he was rich and eloquent and full of force, a dogged pursuer of the truth in what he wrote. Isokrates, at any rate, said that Theopompos needed a rein, but Ephoros a spur.[3]
Theopompus was exiled, became a suppliant of Ephesian Artemis, and wrote many letters to Alexander [sc. the Great] against the Chians,[4] and at the same time he also wrote many encomia of Alexander himself.[5] It is also said that he wrote a diatribe against him that is not preserved.
Greek Original:Ephoros Kumaios kai Theopompos Damasistratou, Chios, amphô Isokratous mathêtai, ap' enantiôn to te êthos kai tous logous hormômenoi. ho men gar Ephoros ên to êthos haplous, tên de hermêneian tês historias huptios kai nôthros kai mêdemian echôn epitasin: ho de Theopompos to êthos pikros kai kakoêthês, têi de phrasei polus kai sunechês kai phoras mestos, philalêthês en hois egrapsen. ho goun Isokratês ton men ephê chalinou deisthai, ton de Ephoron kentrou. phugas de genomenos ho Theopompos hiketês egeneto tês Ephesias Artemidos, epestelle te polla kata Chiôn Alexandrôi, kai mentoi kai auton Alexandron enkômiasas polla. legetai de kai psogon autou gegraphenai, hos ou pheretai.
Notes:
[1] For Ephoros (FGrH 70; OCD(4) 510) see already
epsilon 3930; for Theopompos (FGrH 115; OCD(4) 1461-2 '
Theopompus[3]') see
theta 172.
[2]
Isocrates:
iota 652.
[3] A memorable aphorism much echoed (by
Cicero, Quintilian, et al.) but not necessarily reliable in this context:
Plato is reported to have said the same about
Aristotle and
Xenocrates (
Diogenes Laertius 4.6), and
Aristotle -- echoing
Plato -- about Theophrastos and Kallisthenes (
Diogenes Laertius 5.39). For arguments that the
Plato/
Aristotle/
Xenocrates version is the original see D. Whitehead, "The rein and the spur", in N. Sekunda (ed.),
Corolla Cosmo Rodewald (Gdansk 2007) 39-42.
[4] FGrH 115 F251-254.
[5] Cf. FGrH 155 F 255 (
Theon,
Progymnasmata 2).
References:
On Ephoros: G.L. Barber, The Historian Ephorus (Cambridge 1935)
On Theopompos: M.A. Flower, Theopompus of Chios (Oxford 1994)
Keywords: biography; ethics; geography; historiography; history; politics; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: William Hutton on 4 December 2000@22:36:33.
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