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Headword:
*qe/wros
Adler number: theta,224
Translated headword: Theoros, Theorus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name. He was a perjurer and a flatterer. Theoros was satirized in comedy as, also, a seducer and a fish-eater and a villain. So he lived in Corinth, because of the whores there.
Greek Original:*qe/wros: o)/noma ku/rion. h)=n de\ e)pi/orkos kai\ ko/lac. e)kwmw|dei=to de\ o( *qe/wros kai\ w(s moixo\s kai\ i)xquofa/gos kai\ ponhro/s. peri\ *ko/rinqon ou)=n die/tribe dia\ ta\s e)kei= po/rnas.
Note:
Mentioned in several plays of
Aristophanes (
Acharnians,
Knights,
Clouds,
Wasps) from the 420s BCE. The present material derives from the
scholia to
Knights 608.
Aristophanes, Wasps, edited with introduction and commentary by Douglas M. MacDowell (Oxford 1971) 133
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; geography; law; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 November 2000@05:46:29.
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