• Alcidamas (Greek: Ἀλκιδάμας), of Elaea, in Aeolis, was a Greek sophist and rhetorician, who flourished in the 5th-4th century BC [1]. He was the pupil...
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    Pseudo-Herodotus and the Contest of Homer and Hesiod. In the early fourth century BC Alcidamas composed a fictional account of a poetry contest at Chalcis with both...
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    elected an ephor (overseer) in Sparta in the 56th Olympiad (556/5 BC). Alcidamas states that he was a member of the Spartan assembly. Diogenes Laërtius...
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    chthonic setting. A single literary epitaph, attributed to the sophist Alcidamas, credits Orpheus with the invention of writing. See Ivan Mortimer Linforth...
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  • earlier precedent in some form, and argued that it derived from the sophist Alcidamas' Mouseion, written in the fourth century B.C. Three fragmentary papyri...
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    evidently considered them near-contemporaries, and the 4th century BC sophist Alcidamas in his work Mouseion even brought them together for an imagined poetic...
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    the upmost wealth of understanding." In the 4th century BC the Sophist Alcidamas wrote that Pythagoras was widely honored by Italians. Today scholars typically...
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    Doryclus Iphition (2) Pelagon Briseus Keres Diores Antiphus Lycon Mesthles Alcidamas Dresaeus Isus Pelias Chaon Moros Elephenor Antitheus Lycophron Nastes...
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    the fourth-century BC orator Alcidamas probably used Sophocles' Aleadae for one of its sources. According to Alcidamas, Auge's father Aleus had been...
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    can comprehend reason but "…has not got the deliberative part at all." Alcidamas, at the same time as Aristotle, took the opposite view, saying: "nature...
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    the fourth century BC orator Alcidamas probably used Sophocles' Aleadae for one of its sources. According to Alcidamas, Auge's father Aleus had been...
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    freedom subject to no one, except those laws decided using majoritarianism. Alcidamas, for example, said: "God has set everyone free. No one is made a slave...
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    Themistius, statesman, rhetorician and philosopher Thrasymachus, sophist Alcidamas, sophist and rhetorician Polemon of Laodicea, sophist Zenodotus, grammarian...
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  • Alcidamas's use of oikonomos in the context of a rhetorician as "dispenser of pleasure to his audience". This was part of a repudiation of Alcidamas'...
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  • Alcamenes – sculptor Alcetas – King of Macedon Alcibiades – Athenian general Alcidamas – sophist Alciphron – sophist Alcisthene – female painter Alcmaeon of...
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  • Crete from Arcadia. Tripp, s.v. Catreus, p. 152; Apollodorus, E.3.3. Alcidamas, Odysseus 14-16 (Garagin and Woodruff, p. 286); Apollodorus, 2.7.4, 3...
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  • students are named in later traditions; the Suda adds Pericles, Polus, and Alcidamas, Diogenes Laërtius mentions Antisthenes, and according to Philostratus...
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  • Antiphon of Rhamnus Andocides Isaeus Aeschines Orator Dinarchus Gorgias Alcidamas Lesbonax Herodes Atticus Dionysius Halicanasseus, De Lysia 1513 Alexander...
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    discussion of these themes in Greek myth and literature, see McHardy (2008). Alcidamas, Odysseus 14-16 (Garagin and Woodruff, p. 286); Apollodorus, 3.9.1. Euripides...
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    orator Alcidamas, Odysseus 14-16 (Garagin and Woodruff, p. 286) which probably used Sophocles' play Aleadai as a source (see Gantz, p. 428). Alcidamas is...
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    the fourth century BC orator Alcidamas probably used Sophocles' Aleadae for one of its sources. According to Alcidamas and others, Aleus discovered that...
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  • Sthenelaides Alcathous Alcathous of Elis Alces (mythology) Alcestis Alcibiades Alcidamas Alcidas Alcimachus of Apollonia Alcimedon Alcimus Alcinoe Alcinous Alcmaeon...
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  • Κτήσυλλα, romanized: Ktḗsulla) was a maiden of Ioulis in Ceos, daughter of Alcidamas. During the Pythian festival, an Athenian named Hermochares saw Ctesylla...
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  • the second century, but which appears to be based on the Mouseion of Alcidamas, written in the fourth century BC. The Certamen begins with a version...
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  • and Acanthis by Hippodamia. Melaneus, a Trojan warrior and brother of Alcidamas. He was killed by Neoptolemus, Achilles' son, during the Trojan War. Melaneus...
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    1881-1908, also including the surviving orations of Gorgias, Antisthenes, and Alcidamas), Hypereides (1881, 1894), Demosthenes (Dindorf's ed., 1885), Isocrates...
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  • (1982), 225-230 Nicholas Richardson, 'The contest of Homer and Hesiod and Alcidamas' Mouseion', Classical Quarterly 31 (1981), 1-10 Nicholas Richardson, 'Literary...
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