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Headword:
*dionusia/dhs
Adler number: delta,1169
Translated headword: Dionysiades
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Son of Phylarchides, of
Mallos,[1] tragic poet. This man was a member of the Pleiad,[2] and he also wrote, amongst other things,
Characters or
Comedy-lovers,[3] in which he describes the characters of the [comic] poets.[4]
Apollonion [is] shorthand for shrine of Apollo.[5]
*dionusia/dhs, *fularxi/dou, *mallw/ths, tragiko/s. h)=n de\ ou(=tos tw=n th=s *pleia/dos, kai\ ge/graptai au)tw=| metacu\ a)/llwn kai\ *xarakth=res h)\ *filokw/mw|doi, e)n w(=| tou\s xarakth=ras a)pagge/llei tw=n poihtw=n. o(/ti *)apollw/nion braxe/ws to\ i(ero\n tou= *)apo/llwnos.
Notes:
First half of C3 BC.
[1] In
Cilicia (southern Turkey); again at
mu 119.
[2] A "brilliant group of seven [Hellenistic] tragedians": R. Pfeiffer,
A History of Classical Scholarship (Oxford 1968) 119. For other members see
alpha 1127,
lambda 827,
omicron 253,
sigma 860,
sigma 863,
tau 894,
phi 358.
[3] Perhaps, rather, in the singular:
Comedy-lover (so A. Meineke).
[4] Whatever its exact title(s) -- see preceding note -- this work "looks like the first effort to distinguish the style of the Attic comic poets and may have been the source of later treatises" (Pfeiffer op.cit. 160).
[5] Quoted from
alpha 3418 -- but misplaced here, as it belongs, if anywhere, with
delta 1168.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 September 2001@04:10:53.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 5 September 2002@06:31:49.
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added italics; cosmetics) on 16 September 2003@10:25:15.
Catharine Roth (added cross-references) on 19 April 2004@13:12:53.
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 12 July 2012@05:37:41.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation following a suggestion from Brady Kiesling) on 28 December 2016@00:54:39.
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