Τιμοκρέων

Timokreon, Timocreon

Translated by David Whitehead15 Sep 2003Vetting: high6 revisions

4 notes · 52 words
Of Rhodes;1 he too was a poet of Old Comedy.2 He was at odds with Simonides the melic poet3 and with the Athenian Themistokles, against whom he contrived a rebuke in poetic form.4 He wrote a comedy whose target was both this same Themistokles and Simonides the melic poet, and other works.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τιμοκρέων, Ῥόδιος, κωμικὸς καὶ αὐτὸς τῆς ἀρχαίας κωμῳδίας. διεφέρετο δὲ πρὸς Σιμωνίδην τὸν τῶν μελῶν ποιητὴν καὶ Θεμιστοκλέα τὸν Ἀθηναῖον, εἰς ὃν ἐξύφανε ψόγον δι' ἐμμελοῦς τινος ποιήματος. ἔγραψε δὲ κωμῳδίαν εἴς τε τὸν αὐτὸν Θεμιστοκλέα καὶ εἰς Σιμωνίδην τὸν μελοποιόν, καὶ ἄλλα.

Betacode
*timokre/wn, *(ro/dios, kwmiko\s kai\ au)to\s th=s a)rxai/as kwmw|di/as. diefe/reto de\ pro\s *simwni/dhn to\n tw=n melw=n poihth\n kai\ *qemistokle/a to\n *)aqhnai=on, ei)s o(\n e)cu/fane yo/gon di' e)mmelou=s tinos poih/matos. e)/graye de\ kwmw|di/an ei)/s te to\n au)to\n *qemistokle/a kai\ ei)s *simwni/dhn to\n melopoio/n, kai\ a)/lla.

Notes (4)

  1. Late C6/early C5 BCE. See generally C. Carey in OCD(4) s.v.
    See already under sigma 645.
  2. 1More precisely, of Ialysos, in the north of the island. ↩
  3. 2The cross-reference (in 'too') is to tau 623 and tau 624. But in fact the classification is incorrect: T. was a lyric and elegiac poet. ↩
  4. 3Simonides: see generally sigma 439, sigma 440, sigma 441. ↩
  5. 4Themistokles/Themistocles: see generally theta 124, theta 125, theta 126. For his feud with Timokreon, cf. Plutarch, Themistocles 21. ↩

References


Frank J. Frost, Plutarch's Themistocles (Princeton 1980) 181-184
A.J. Podlecki, The Life of Themistocles: a critical survey of the literary and archaeological evidence (Montreal & London 1975) 51-54

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τ623ΤιμοκλῆςTimokles, Timoclesτ624ΤιμοκλῆςTimokles, Timoclesτ625ΤιμοκρέωνTimokreon, Timocreonτ626ΤιμόλαοςTimolaus, Timolaosτ627Τιμῶ σεI honour you
Revision history6 revisions · last 26 Aug 2022
  1. cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. another x-ref; tweak — David Whitehead
  5. added bibliog — David Whitehead
  6. cosmetics — Catharine Roth
  7. Translated — David Whitehead

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