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Headword: *)aristome/nhs
Adler number: alpha,3922
Translated headword: Aristomenes
Vetting Status: high
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:
*)aristome/nhs, *)aqhnai=os, kwmiko\s tw=n e)pideute/rwn th=s a)rxai/as kwmw|di/as, oi(\ h)=san e)pi\ tw=n *peloponnhsiakw=n, *)olumpia/di pz#. e)peklh/qh *quropoio/s.
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.
Keywords: biography; chronology; comedy; geography; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 29 July 2001@06:47:18.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes and keyword; cosmetics) on 29 July 2001@11:11:51.
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented note) on 3 August 2001@07:39:00.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added italics; cosmetics) on 14 October 2005@17:35:58.
David Whitehead (x-ref) on 10 November 2005@09:09:57.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 12 April 2012@05:27:38.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 31 July 2014@03:33:06.
David Whitehead on 22 December 2014@05:53:49.
David Whitehead on 31 August 2015@05:49:27.

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