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Headword:
*zwi/+los
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.
*zwi/+los, *)amfipoli/ths [po/lis d' e)sti\ *makedoni/as *)amfi/polis, h(/tis prw/hn e)kalei=to *)enne/a o(doi/], o(\s e)peklh/qh *(omhroma/stic, o(/ti e)pe/skwpten *(/omhron. dio\ au)to\n diw/cantes oi( e)n th=| *)olumpi/a| kata\ tw=n *skirwni/dwn petrw=n e)/rriyan. r(h/twr de\ h)=n kai\ filo/sofos. e)/graye me/ntoi tina\ kai\ grammatika/: *kata\ th=s *(omh/rou poih/sews lo/gous q#, *(istori/an a)po\ qeogoni/as e(/ws th=s *fili/ppou teleuth=s bibli/a g#, *peri\ *)amfipo/lews, kai\ *kata\ *)isokra/tous tou= r(h/toros, kai\ a)/lla plei=sta, e)n oi(=s kai\ yo/gos *(omh/rou.
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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