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...

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...

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...

chthonic setting. A single literary epitaph, attributed to the sophist Alcidamas, credits Orpheus with the invention of writing. See Ivan Mortimer Linforth...

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...

evidently considered them near-contemporaries, and the 4th century BC sophist Alcidamas in his work Mouseion even brought them together for an imagined poetic...

the upmost wealth of understanding." In the 4th century BC the Sophist Alcidamas wrote that Pythagoras was widely honored by Italians. Today scholars typically...

Doryclus Iphition (2) Pelagon Briseus Keres Diores Antiphus Lycon Mesthles Alcidamas Dresaeus Isus Pelias Chaon Moros Elephenor Antitheus Lycophron Nastes...

the fourth-century BC orator Alcidamas probably used Sophocles' Aleadae for one of its sources. According to Alcidamas, Auge's father Aleus had been...

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...

the fourth century BC orator Alcidamas probably used Sophocles' Aleadae for one of its sources. According to Alcidamas, Auge's father Aleus had been...

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...

Themistius, statesman, rhetorician and philosopher Thrasymachus, sophist Alcidamas, sophist and rhetorician Polemon of Laodicea, sophist Zenodotus, grammarian...

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'...

Alcamenes – sculptor Alcetas – King of Macedon Alcibiades – Athenian general Alcidamas – sophist Alciphron – sophist Alcisthene – female painter Alcmaeon of...

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...

students are named in later traditions; the Suda adds Pericles, Polus, and Alcidamas, Diogenes Laërtius mentions Antisthenes, and according to Philostratus...

Antiphon of Rhamnus Andocides Isaeus Aeschines Orator Dinarchus Gorgias Alcidamas Lesbonax Herodes Atticus Dionysius Halicanasseus, De Lysia 1513 Alexander...

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...

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...

the fourth century BC orator Alcidamas probably used Sophocles' Aleadae for one of its sources. According to Alcidamas and others, Aleus discovered that...

Sthenelaides Alcathous Alcathous of Elis Alces (mythology) Alcestis Alcibiades Alcidamas Alcidas Alcimachus of Apollonia Alcimedon Alcimus Alcinoe Alcinous Alcmaeon...

Κτήσυλλα, romanized: Ktḗsulla) was a maiden of Ioulis in Ceos, daughter of Alcidamas. During the Pythian festival, an Athenian named Hermochares saw Ctesylla...

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...

and Acanthis by Hippodamia. Melaneus, a Trojan warrior and brother of Alcidamas. He was killed by Neoptolemus, Achilles' son, during the Trojan War. Melaneus...

1881-1908, also including the surviving orations of Gorgias, Antisthenes, and Alcidamas), Hypereides (1881, 1894), Demosthenes (Dindorf's ed., 1885), Isocrates...

(1982), 225-230 Nicholas Richardson, 'The contest of Homer and Hesiod and Alcidamas' Mouseion', Classical Quarterly 31 (1981), 1-10 Nicholas Richardson, 'Literary...