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Headword:
Zôïlos
Adler number: zeta,130
Translated headword: Zoilos, Zoilus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of
Amphipolis. (
Amphipolis is a city of Macedonia, which was originally called Ennea Hodoi.[1]) He was nicknamed 'Scourge of
Homer' [
Homeromastix], because he made fun of
Homer -- for which reason the people in
Olympia chased him and threw him down off the Scironian rocks.[2] He was a rhetor and philosopher, but he also wrote a number of grammatical works:
Against the Poetry of Homer, 9 speeches; a
History from the birth of the gods to the death of Philip [sc. of Macedon], 3 books;
On Amphipolis;
Against the rhetor Isocrates; and very many other works, including an
invective against Homer.
Zôïlos, Amphipolitês [polis d' esti Makedonias Amphipolis, hêtis prôên ekaleito Ennea hodoi], hos epeklêthê Homêromastix, hoti epeskôpten Homêron. dio auton diôxantes hoi en têi Olumpiai kata tôn Skirônidôn petrôn erripsan. rhêtôr de ên kai philosophos. egrapse mentoi tina kai grammatika: Kata tês Homêrou poiêseôs logous th#, Historian apo theogonias heôs tês Philippou teleutês biblia g#, Peri Amphipoleôs, kai Kata Isokratous tou rhêtoros, kai alla pleista, en hois kai psogos Homêrou.
Notes:
C4 BC. See generally RE Suppl. 13, Zoilos(14); OCD4 Zoilus; FGrH 71.
[1] See
alpha 1754.
[2] There may be textual corruption here. The Scironian rocks lay between Megara and Corinth (
Strabo 9.1.4, etc.) and thus nowhere near
Olympia. Cf.
sigma 568.
Translated by: Malcolm Heath on 16 February 2001@11:41:33.
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