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Headword: *dioklh=s
Adler number: delta,1155
Translated headword: Diokles, Diocles
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Athenian or Phliasian,[1] an ancient comic poet,[2] contemporary with Sannyrion[3] and Philyllius.[4] His plays [are] Sea, Bees, Dreams, Bacchae, Thyestes (2 versions).
They say that this man also invented the music made with saucers, pottery vessels, which he used to hit with a wooden stick.[5]
This Sea is a courtesan's name, as Athenaeus says.[6]
Greek Original:
*dioklh=s, *)aqhnai=os h)\ *flia/sios, a)rxai=os kwmiko/s, su/gxronos *sannuri/wni kai\ *filulli/w|. dra/mata au)tou= *qa/latta, *me/littai, *)/oneiroi, *ba/kxai, *que/sths b#. tou=ton de/ fasin eu(rei=n kai\ th\n e)n toi=s o)cuba/fois a(rmoni/an e)n o)straki/nois a)ggei/ois, a(/per e)/krouen e)n culifi/w|. to\ de\ *qa/latta e(tai/ras o)/noma/ e)stin, w(s *)aqh/naio/s fhsin.
Notes:
c.400 BC; OCD4 s.v. Diocles(2); PCG 5.18ff.
[1] i.e., in the latter case, from Phleious in the NE Peloponnese (cf. pi 2230, pi 3239, tau 631).
[2] Or (clumsily expressed): a poet of Old Comedy.
[3] sigma 93.
[4] phi 457.
[5] cf. alpha 3977, xi 98, omicron 421.
[6] Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 13.567C (13.21 Kaibel).
Keywords: biography; chronology; comedy; dreams; gender and sexuality; geography; meter and music; mythology; trade and manufacture; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 12 May 2003@07:36:40.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth on 29 May 2003@00:07:24.
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