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Theopompus ⁽²⁾   Reference library

Kenneth James Dover

The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)

... (2) , Athenian comic poet , was active from c. 410 bc (probably not earlier) to c. 370 . We have twenty titles (including Odysseus , Penelope , and Sirens ) and over 100 citations (many of them only glosses). PCG 7. 708 ff. Kenneth James...

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The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World

...II , 406/5–344/3 . (3) Theopompus' historical writing was markedly rhetorical. He goes in for meticulous and skilful stylization, including numerous Gorgianic ( see gorgias ) figures of speech. (4) There is much moralizing in Theopompus. He incessantly denounced the depravity of leading politicians. (5) Political tendencies: Theopompus' attitude was that of a conservative aristocrat with Spartan sympathies. Philip II's patriarchal monarchy came closest to a realization of his ideal political and social system. Theopompus venerated him: ‘Europe had...

Theopompus ⁽³⁾(of *Chios)   Reference library

Klaus Meister

The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)

...character of Theopompus' historical writing was very marked. He goes in for meticulous and skilful stylization, including numerous Gorgianic ( see gorgias (1) ) figures of speech (cf. e.g. 34, frs. 225, 263). (4) There is much moralizing in Theopompus. He incessantly denounced the moral depravity of leading politicians. (5) Political tendencies: Theopompus' attitude was that of a conservative aristocrat with Spartan sympathies. Philip II's patriarchal monarchy came closest to a realization of his ideal political and social system. Theopompus venerated him:...

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Klaus Meister

The Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (2 ed.)

...character of Theopompus’ historical writing was very marked. He goes in for meticulous and skilful stylization, including numerous Gorgianic ( see gorgias ) figures of speech (cf. e.g. 34, frs. 225, 263). (4) There is much moralizing in Theopompus. He incessantly denounced the moral depravity of leading politicians. (5) Political tendencies: Theopompus’ attitude was that of a conservative aristocrat with Spartan sympathies. Philip II’s patriarchal monarchy came closest to a realization of his ideal political and social system. Theopompus venerated him:...

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Klaus Meister

Who's Who in the Classical World

... Dionysius I and II 406/5–344/3 (cf. frs. 184, 183–205). (3) The rhetorical character of Theopompus' historical writing was very marked. He goes in for meticulous and skilful stylization, including numerous Gorgianic figures of speech reminiscent of the sophist Gorgias of Leontini (cf. e.g. 34, frs. 225, 263). (4) There is much moralizing in Theopompus. He incessantly denounced the moral depravity of leading politicians. (5) Political tendencies: Theopompus' attitude was that of a conservative aristocrat with Spartan sympathies. Philip II's ...

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Paul Anthony Cartledge

The Oxford Classical Dictionary (4 ed.)

... (1) , Eurypontid king of Sparta (reigned ? 720–675 bc ), was associated by name in the near-contemporary poetry of Tyrtaeus with two momentous developments: the first conquest of Messenia ( c. 710 ), and the constitutional reform embodied in the ‘Great Rhetra’ otherwise attributed to Lycurgus (2) ( see sparta , § 2). His alleged creation of the ephorate ( see ephors ) is a later tradition, or invention. Tyrtaeus fr. 4 West. PB no. 363. Kl. Pauly , ‘Theopompos (2)’; P. Cartledge , Sparta and Lakonia , 2nd edn. (2002). Paul Anthony...

Theopo'mpus (378–after 320 bc)   Reference library

The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.)

... (of Chios, 378–after 320 bc ) Greek historian, pupil of Isocrates , friend of Philip II and Alexander the Great of Macedon. He was exiled from Chios for having Spartan sympathies, restored by Alexander, and fled to Egypt at the latter's death in 323 . Little remains of his numerous books except for fragments of his two most important works, the Hellenica and Philippica . The former was a continuation of Thucydides, a history of Greece from 411 to the battle of Cnidus in 394 ; the latter, a vast work in fifty-eight books, used the life...