• cured thereby. A passage from Theopompus is given by Athenaeus in his Deipnosophistae. Claudius Aelianus quotes both Theopompus and Lycus of Rhegium as sources...
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  • Theopompus is the name of: Theopompus, 4th century BC Greek historian Theopompus (king of Sparta), 7th–8th century BC Spartan king Theopompus (comic poet)...
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  • king beloved of the gods, Theopompus, through whom we took Messene with wide dancing-grounds. Pausanias reports that Theopompus was succeeded by his grandson...
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    information, although rarely did he name his sources (see, exceptionally, Theopompus). Polybius wrote several works, most of which are lost. His earliest work...
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  • Theopompus (Ancient Greek: Θεόπομπος) was an Athenian poet of the Greek Old Comedy, the son of Theodectus or Theodorus. He produced 24 plays. Twenty titles...
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  • story to King Midas according to Theopompus's Philippica. Although Atlantis was incredibly big by Plato's account, Theopompus describes Meropis as even bigger...
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  • multipurpose stadium in Melbourne, Australia Marvels (Theopompus), a work by the ancient Greek author Theopompus MARVEL transmembrane domain, as found in proteins...
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    however, the first king was Perdiccas I. Caranus is first reported by Theopompus and is the mythical founder of the Argead dynasty. According to a Greek...
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    "fetched its weight in silver" in the fourth century BC, according to Theopompus. The discovery of large numbers of Murex shells on Crete suggests the...
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    The ancient town Dystus was mentioned by the 4th century BCE historian Theopompus. It is thought to have been founded by the Dryopians. The site of the...
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    the markets of Byzantion were mentioned first by Xenophon and then by Theopompus who wrote that Byzantians "spent their time at the market and the harbour"...
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  • Anaximenes was hostile to Theopompus, whom he sought to discredit with a libelous parody, Trikaranos, published in Theopompus' style and under his name...
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    Aristomenes the Messenian sacrificed 300 men to Zeus of Ithome...[including] Theopompus the Lacedaemonian (Spartan) king, a noble victim." The rite was supposedly...
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  • of Rhodes Hellanicus of Lesbos Heracleides of Cyme Herodotus Philistus Theopompus Thucydides Xenophon Hellenica Oxyrhynchia Abydenus Aesopus (historian)...
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    Euryleon, a noble Spartan and a Cadmid, with Polydorus on his left and Theopompus on the right. The latter in his harangue appealed to glory, wealth and...
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    mention of his name under penalty of death. However, the ancient historian Theopompus, who was not Ephesian but rather Chian, mentions the name of Herostratus...
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    disguised Odysseus to onion and sun "risks being funny", and notes that Theopompus indeed found it "ridiculous". Griffith suggests that Homer included the...
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    works he drew include Hecataeus of Abdera, Ctesias of Cnidus, Ephorus, Theopompus, Hieronymus of Cardia, Duris of Samos, Diyllus, Philistus, Timaeus, Polybius...
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    BC), and Chios became independent again until the rise of Macedonia. Theopompus returned to Chios with the other exiles in 333 BC after Alexander had...
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    metallic copper and zinc ores had been introduced. The 4th century BC writer Theopompus, quoted by Strabo, describes how heating earth from Andeira in Turkey...
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    century BC (but quoting a now lost work of the 4th century BC historian Theopompus) mentions "drops of false silver" which when mixed with copper make brass...
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    was controversial, and two authors from that period, Callisthenes and Theopompus, appear to reject its existence. It is possible that the Athenians had...
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    Trojan War. Additionally, Pausanias states that they were a Greek race. Theopompus, as well, informs us that Pamphylia was inhabited by Greeks. Some modern...
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    the plain account of the heroic chariot race. In the first related by Theopompus, having received the horses, Pelops hastens to Pisa to defeat Oenomaus...
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    Schools and Universities, by T. Mitchell, John Murray, 1839. GS Shrimpton, Theopompus The Historian Archived 30 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine, McGill-Queens...
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  • remaining its king. Meropis Philippica Parody of Atlantis created by Theopompus of Chios. Meruza Aconcagua Andean mountainous country, from the Japanese...
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  • Hippocratides, Leotychides, Anaxilaus, Archidamos, Anaxandridas I and Theopompus) and came to power in 491 BC with the help of the Agiad King Cleomenes...
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    Philip V of Macedon had manuscripts of the history of Philip II written by Theopompus gathered by his court scholars and disseminated with further copies. When...
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    University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-03177-7. Shrimpton, G. (1991). Theopompus The Historian. McGill-Queen's Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-0837-8. Sicking,...
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    Writing only a few decades after the Timaeus and Critias, the historian Theopompus of Chios wrote of a land beyond the ocean known as Meropis. This description...
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