Ὀλυμπιάνειος σοφιστής
Olympianeian sophist
Translated by Ioannis Doukas14 May 2007Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning sc. an associate] of Olympianus.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὀλυμπιάνειος σοφιστής· τοῦ Ὀλυμπιανοῦ.
Betacode
*)olumpia/neios sofisth/s: tou= *)olumpianou=.
Notes
- 'A cryptic entry', as Malcolm Heath (see below) puts it. The Olympianus referred to here is indeterminable; there is a sophist Olympianus attested in Libanius (Epistles 1489); also an author quoted in Stephanus of Byzantium s.vv.
*dou/lwn po/lis, *tahnoi\ , in the latter as the writer of a book entitled*)arabika\ , Arabian Stories (although there are ms variations on the name: see Heath 133 n.19).
Apart from these, we also know of a bishop of Byzantium (187-198) by that name, another Olympianus as the addressee of a letter by Gregory of Nazianzus (Epistles 234); and the name is also attested in epigraphic sources. Finally, there is an Armenian collection of fables under Olympianus' name, probably a compilation of Aesopic fables.
References
Heath, M., 'Theon and the history of the progymnasmata', Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 43 (2002-3) 129-160
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Revision history3 revisions · last 25 Jun 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- cosmeticules — Catharine Roth
- more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ioannis Doukas