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Headword:
Aristomenês
Adler number: alpha,3922
Translated headword: Aristomenes
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Translation: An Athenian, a comic poet among those of later date in Old Comedy who were during the Peloponnesian [Wars] in the 87th Olympiad.[1] He was called Thyropoios ["Door-Maker"].[2]
Greek Original:Aristomenês, Athênaios, kômikos tôn epideuterôn tês archaias kômôidias, hoi êsan epi tôn Peloponnêsiakôn, Olumpiadi pz#. epeklêthê Thuropoios.
Notes:
See generally OCD(4) p.157, under '
Aristomenes(2)'; Kassel-Austin, PCG II pp.562-568.
[1] 432-429. In fact his plays (five titles survive) seem to have spanned the period 440-390. But be that as it may, these chronological indicators do fit an understanding of
tw=n e)pideute/rwn, here and elsewhere (
phi 763), as not a value-judgement (so LSJ etc.) but a simple matter of date. For evidence and argument to this effect see D. Harvey in D. Harvey and J. Wilkins (eds.),
The Rivals of Aristophanes (London 2000) 108-110.
[2] cf.
theta 611. The significance of the nickname is unclear.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 29 July 2001@06:47:18.
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