Τιμοκλῆς
Timokles, Timocles
Translated by David Whitehead26 Apr 2003Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Another [Timokles], he too a comic poet.1 Amongst his plays are Women celebrating the Dionysia, Busybody, Ikarians,2 Delos, Lethe, Dionysos, Dustcloud, Porphyra (which also seems [to some] to be by Xenarchus),3 Heroes, Dragon, Neaira (Neaira is a courtesan's name),4 Orestes, Marathonians.
These are the ones mentioned by Athenaeus in the books of his Deipnosophists.5 There are also others.
These are the ones mentioned by Athenaeus in the books of his Deipnosophists.5 There are also others.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Τιμοκλῆς ἕτερος, καὶ αὐτὸς κωμικός. τῶν δραμάτων αὐτοῦ ἐστι Διονυσιάζουσαι, Πολυπράγμων, Ἰκάριοι, Δῆλος, Λήθη, Διόνυσος, Κονίσαλος, Πορφύρα [ἥτις καὶ δοκεῖ Ξενάρχου εἶναι], Ἥρωες, Δρακόντιον, Νέαιρα [ἑταίρας δὲ ὄνομά ἐστιν ἡ Νέαιρα], Ὀρέστης, Μαραθώνιοι. ταῦτα Ἀθήναιος λέγει ἐν τοῖς βιβλίοις τῶν Δειπνοσοφιστῶν. εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ ἄλλα.
Betacode
*timoklh=s e(/teros, kai\ au)to\s kwmiko/s. tw=n drama/twn au)tou= e)sti *dionusia/zousai, *polupra/gmwn, *)ika/rioi, *dh=los, *lh/qh, *dio/nusos, *koni/salos, *porfu/ra [h(/tis kai\ dokei= *cena/rxou ei)=nai], *(/hrwes, *drako/ntion, *ne/aira [e(tai/ras de\ o)/noma/ e)stin h( *ne/aira], *)ore/sths, *maraqw/nioi. tau=ta *)aqh/naios le/gei e)n toi=s bibli/ois tw=n *deipnosofistw=n. ei)si\ de\ kai\ a)/lla.
Notes (5)
- 1See tau 623. Modern scholars, however, equate the two. ↩
- 2See generally iota 255. ↩
- 3See generally xi 22. ↩
- 4cf. alpha 2048, and see generally Debra Hamel, Trying Neaira (New Haven 2003). ↩
- 5Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 6.223B [6.2 Kaibel], 8.339D-F [8.23-24], 8.341E [8.27], 9.407D-E [9.73], 10.430F [10.37], 10.431A [10.37], 10.455F [10.83], 13.567D-E [13.22], 13.570F [13.27]. ↩
Linked from2 entries
- τ623ΤιμοκλῆςTimokles, TimoclesAthenian, comic poet. Amongst his plays are People-satyrs, Centaur, Kaunians, Letters, Spiteful Man, Jury-lover, Boxer; as Athenaeus says in Deipnosophists.
- τ625ΤιμοκρέωνTimokreon, TimocreonOf Rhodes; he too was a poet of Old Comedy. He was at odds with Simonides the melic poet and with the Athenian Themistokles, against whom he contrived a rebuke in poetic form. He wrote a comedy whose target was both…
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Revision history5 revisions · last 15 Jan 2015
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- added note — David Whitehead
- Corrected typos. — Debra Hamel
- Translated — David Whitehead