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Headword:
*timokre/wn
Adler number: tau,625
Translated headword: Timokreon, Timocreon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Of
Rhodes;[1] he too was a poet of Old Comedy.[2] He was at odds with
Simonides the melic poet[3] and with the Athenian Themistokles, against whom he contrived a rebuke in poetic form.[4] He wrote a comedy whose target was both this same Themistokles and
Simonides the melic poet, and other works.
Greek Original:*timokre/wn, *(ro/dios, kwmiko\s kai\ au)to\s th=s a)rxai/as kwmw|di/as. diefe/reto de\ pro\s *simwni/dhn to\n tw=n melw=n poihth\n kai\ *qemistokle/a to\n *)aqhnai=on, ei)s o(\n e)cu/fane yo/gon di' e)mmelou=s tinos poih/matos. e)/graye de\ kwmw|di/an ei)/s te to\n au)to\n *qemistokle/a kai\ ei)s *simwni/dhn to\n melopoio/n, kai\ a)/lla.
Notes:
References:
Frank J. Frost, Plutarch's Themistocles (Princeton 1980) 181-184
A.J. Podlecki, The Life of Themistocles: a critical survey of the literary and archaeological evidence (Montreal & London 1975) 51-54
Keywords: biography; chronology; comedy; ethics; geography; history; poetry
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 September 2003@08:18:54.
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