File Hipponax of Ephesus.jpg thumb 200px Hipponax from Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum Hipponax of Ephesus was an Ancient Greek iambic poet . Expelled from Ephesus in 540 BC by the tyrant Athenagoras of Ephesus Athenagoras , he took refuge in Clazomenae , where he spent the rest of his life in poverty. His deformed figure and malicious disposition exposed him to the caricature of the Chian sculpture sculptors Bupalus Bupalus and Athenis , upon whom he revenged himself by issuing against them a series of satire s. They are said to have hanged themselves like Lycambes and his daughters when assailed by Archilochus Archilochus of Paros , the model and predecessor of Hipponax. ref Gerber, Douglas E., http books.google.com books?id Zzlnqb 64SYC&pg PA50&lpg PA50&dq lycambes&source bl&ots AhFddrmwt0&sig qcxb3odRqBTxbshCj13 ocAbhpk&hl en&sa X&oi book result&resnum 5&ct result A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets , BRILL, 1997. ISBN 9004099441. Cf. p.50 ref His coarseness of thought and feeling, his want of grace and taste, and his numerous allusions to matters of merely local interest prevented his becoming a favourite in Attica, Greece Attica . He was considered the inventor of parody and of a peculiar metre, the scazon halting iambic as Murray calls it ref Cf. Murray, 1897, p.88 ref or choliamb , which substitutes a spondee for the final iambus of an iambic senarius, and is an appropriate form for the burlesque character of his poems. He composed in a form of Ionic dialect Ionic Greek ...&dq Hipponax Lydian language v onepage&q Hipponax 20Lydian 20language&f false Page 769 ISBN 978 ..., 1985. ISBN 0 521 21042 9, cf. Chapter 5, Elegy and Iambus , pp. 158 164 on Hipponax. Gilbert ..., http www.ancientopedia.com article 188 Hipponax and Misogyny in Ancient Greece , Ancient History ... z Efezu de Hipponax el es Hiponacte ext Iponati fr Hipponax hy is Hipp nax it Ipponatte lv Hiponakts nl Hipponax ru scn Ippunatti fi Hipponaks uk ... more details
Pericleitus was a Lesbos Island Lesbian Lyric peotry lyric musician of the school of Terpander , flourished shortly before Hipponax , that is, a little earlier than 550 BC . At the Lacedaemonian festival of the Carneia , there were musical contests with the cithara , in which the Lesbian musicians of Terpander s school had obtained the prize from the time of Terpander himself to that of Pericleitus, with whom the glory of the school ceased. References SmithDGRBM Plut. de Mus. 6. p. 1133, d. Category Ancient Greek musicians Category Ancient Lesbians Category 6th century BC Greek people ca Per clit ... more details
For the geometer moth genus , see Bupalus moth . leave redlink to prevent erroneous genus File Bupalus and Athenis.jpg thumb 200px Bupalus and Athenis from Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum Bupalus and Athenis , were sons of Archermus , and members of the celebrated school of sculpture in marble which flourished in Chios in the 6th century BC. They were contemporaries of the poet Hipponax , whom they were said to have caricatured. ref See generally Pliny NH XXXVI.11 http www.perseus.tufts.edu hopper text?doc Perseus text 1999.02.0138 book 36 chapter 3 Perseus text Perseus calls this chapter 3 although other sources differ. ref Their works consisted almost entirely of draped female figures, Artemis , Fortuna mythology Fortune , Charites The Graces , when the Chian school has been well called a school of Madonnas. Augustus Caesar Augustus brought many of the works of Bupalus and Athenis to Rome , and placed them on the gable of the temple of Apollo Palatine temple of Apollo Palatinus . They supposedly committed suicide out of shame when Hipponax wrote caustic satirical poetry about them for revenge. Aristophanes refers to Bupalus in The Lysistrata . When the Chorus of Men encounter the Chorus of Women near the north western edge of the Acropolis they ridicule the women, I warrant, now, if twice or thrice we slap their faces neatly, That they will learn, like Bupalus, to hold their tongues discreetly. Benjamin Bickley Rogers translation It is now suggested that the north and perhaps also the east frieze of the Siphnian Treasury in Delphi was the work of Bupalus, based on a partially erased inscription around the circumference of one of the giant s shields, reconstructed as ? Boupalos son of Archermos made these sculptures and those behind. ref SEG LII.538. ref See also Marble sculpture References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Bupalus Category 6th century BC Greek sculptors Category Ancient Greek sculptors Category Ancient Chians Link GA f ... more details
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for renowned hetaera from Ionia Thargelia person Thargelia Greek language Greek was one of the chief Athens Athenian Athenian festivals festivals in honour of the Delian Apollo and Artemis , held on their birthdays, the 6th and 7th of the month Thargelion about May 24 and May 25 . Essentially an agricultural festival, the Thargelia included a purifying and expiatory ceremony. While the people offered the first fruits of the earth to the god in token of thankfulness, it was at the same time necessary to propitiate him, lest he might ruin the harvest by excessive heat, possibly accompanied by pestilence. The purificatory preceded the thanksgiving service. On the 6th a sheep was sacrificed to Demeter Chloe on the Acropolis , and perhaps a swine to the Moirae Fates , but the most important ritual was the following. Two men, the ugliest that could be found the Pharmakos Pharmakoi were chosen to die, one for the men, the other according to some, a woman for the women. Hipponax of Kolophon claims that on the day of the sacrifice they were led round with strings of figs on their necks, and whipped on the genitals with rods of figwood and squills. When they reached the place of sacrifice on the shore, they were stoned to death, their bodies burnt, and the ashes thrown into the sea or over the land, to act as a fertilizing influence . However, it is unclear how accurate Hipponax s sixth century, poetical account of the ceremony is, and there is much scholarly debate as to its reliability. ref Jan Bremmer, Scapegoat Rituals in Ancient Greece, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 87 1983 299 320. ref It is generally agreed that an actual human sacrifice took place on this occasion, replaced in later times by a milder form of expiation. Thus at Leucas a criminal was annually thrown from a rock into the sea as a scapegoat but his fall was checked by live birds and feathers attached to his person, and men watched below in small boats, who caught him and escorted him bey ... more details
Diphilus , of Sinop, Turkey Sinope , was a poet of the new Attic Ancient Greek comedy comedy and contemporary of Menander 342 BC 342 291 BC . Most of his plays were written and acted at Athens , but he led a wandering life, and died at Smyrna . He was on intimate terms with the famous courtesan Gnathaena Athenaeus xiii. pp. 579, 583 . He is said to have written 100 comedies, the titles of fifty of which are preserved. He sometimes acted himself. To judge from the imitations of Plautus Casina from the , Asinaria from the , Rudens from some other play , he was very skilful in the construction of his plots. Terence also tells us that he introduced into the Adelphi ii. I a scene from the , which had been omitted by Plautus in his adaptation Commorientes of the same play. The style of Diphilus was simple and natural, and his language on the whole good Attic Greek Attic he paid great attention to versification, and was supposed to have invented a peculiar kind of metre. The ancients were undecided whether to class him among the writers of the New or Middle comedy. In his fondness for mythological subjects Hercules , Theseus and his introduction on the stage by a bold anachronism of the poets Archilochus and Hipponax as rivals of Sappho , he approximates to the spirit of the latter. Fragments in R. Kassel C. Austin, Poetae Comici Graeci PCG vol. 5 previously in T. Kock, Comicorum Atticorum fragmenta ii see J. Denis, La Com die grecque 1886 , ii. p. 414 R.W. Bond in Classical Review http www.jstor.org view 0009840x ap020207 02a00020 0?frame noframe&userID 81439ea6 ox.ac.uk 01c0a8486b00506cb5c&dpi 3&config jstor 24 1 Feb. 1910 with trans. of Emporos fragm. . References http www.ancientlibrary.com smith bio 1061.html Ancient Library 1911 Category Ancient Greek dramatists and playwrights Category Ancient Pontic Greeks Category 4th century BC Greek people Category 4th century BC writers Category New Comic poets Category Ancient Smyrna ca D fil d ... more details
Choliambic verse also known as limping iambs or scazons or halting iambic ref Gilbert Murray Murray, Gilbert , http books.google.com books?id DW4qAAAAYAAJ&printsec frontcover&dq a history of ancient Greek literature A History of Ancient Greek Literature , 1897. Cf. p.88 ref is a form of meter poetry meter in poetry. It is found in both Ancient Greek literature Greek and Latin literature Latin poetry in the classical antiquity classical period . Choliambic verse is sometimes called scazon , or lame iambic , because it brings the reader down on the wrong foot by reversing the stresses of the last few beats. It was originally pioneered by the Greek lyric poet Hipponax , who wrote lame trochaics as well as lame iambics the Latin poet Catullus provides a further example in wikisource Catullus 8 Poem 8 . The basic structure is much like iambic trimeter , except that the last cretic is made heavy by the insertion of a longum instead of a syllable weight brevis . Also, the third anceps of the iambic trimeter line must be short in limping iambs. In other words, the line scans as follows where is a longum, is a brevis, and x is an anceps x x As in all classical verse forms, the phenomenon of brevis in longo is observed, so the last syllable can actually be short or long. Notes reflist References Richmond Lattimore, Greek Lyrics 1949 Daniel H. Garrison editor . The Student s Catullus . University of Oklahoma Press Norman, 2004. poetry stub Category Poetic rhythm Category Latin poetry cs Choliambos ru ... more details
For the lyric poet, see Simonides of Ceos Semonides Greek of Amorgos , was the second, both in time and in reputation, of the three principal iambic poets of the early period of Greek literature, namely, Archilochus , Semonides, and Hipponax . The chief information which we have respecting him is contained in two articles of the Suda from which we learn that his father s name was Crines , and that he was originally a native of Samos. Although the Suda makes him a contemporary of Archilochus, modern scholars generally consider his floruit to be somewhat later. ref Oxford Classical Dictionary s.v. Semonides ref The statement of the Suda that he flourished 490 years after the Trojan War, would place him in the seventh century BC. He is best known today for fr. 7, often titled On Women. ref http www.stoa.org diotima anthology sem 7.shtml translation and notes at Diotima ref Footnotes Reflist References Fragments in Theodor Bergk T Bergk , Poetae lyrici Graeci SmithDGRBM External links Audio http poemsoutloud.net audio archive keeley reads the man from chios A poem by Semonides of Amorgos read by poet and translator Edmund Keeley from The Greek Poets Homer to the Present 2010, W. W. Norton DEFAULTSORT Amorgos, Semonides Of Category 7th century BC Greek people Category 7th century BC poets Category Ancient Greek poets Category Ancient Samians Category People from the Cyclades Category Iambic poets Category Ionic Greek poets Ancient Greece bio stub ca Sem nides d Amorg s cs S monid s z Amorgu de Semonides el es Sem nides de Amorgos ext Sem nidi fr S monide d Amorgos hy is Semon des it Semonide lv S mon ds nl Semonides ru fi Semonides Amorgoslainen ... more details
see also Sindhi people Image EtruscanPottery.jpg thumb 250px Ancient terracotta vessels unearthed at the Sindian necropolis near Phanagoria . The photograph by Prokudin Gorskii ca. 1912 . The Sindi Greek language Greek polytonic , Herod. iv. 28 were an ancient people in the Taman Peninsula and the adjacent coast of the Pontus Euxinus Black Sea , in the district called Sindica , which spread between the modern towns of Temryuk and Novorossiysk Herod. l. c. Hipponax. p. 71, ed. Welck. Hellanic. p. 78 Dionys. Per. 681 Stephanus of Byzantium Steph. B. p. 602 Amm. Marc. xxii. 8. 41, &c. . Their name is variously written, and Mela calls them Sindones ii. 19 , Lucian Tox. 55 , Sindianoi . Strabo describes them as living along the Palus Maeotis , and among the Maeotae , Dandarii , Toreatae , Agri people Agri , Arrechi , Tarpetes , Obidiaceni , Sittaceni , Dosci , and Aspurgiani , among others. Strab. xi. 2. 11 . The Great Soviet Encyclopedia classes them as a tribe of the Maeotae . In the 5th century BC, the Sindi were subjugated by the Bosporan Kingdom . They left multiple tumuli which, when excavated by Soviet archaeologists, revealed that their culture was heavily Hellenized. The Sindi were assimilated by the Sarmatians in the first centuries AD. Besides the seaport of Sinda , other towns belonging to the same people were Hermonassa , Gorgippia , and Aborace . Strab. xi. 2, et. seq. They had a monarchical form of government Polyaen, viii. 55 , and Gorgippia was the residence of their kings. Strab. l. c. Nicolaus Damascenus p. 160, ed. Orell. mentions a peculiar custom which they had of throwing upon the grave of a deceased person as many fish as the number of enemies whom he had overcome. References SmithDGRG http www.perseus.tufts.edu cgi bin ptext?doc Perseus 3Atext 3A1999.01.0198&query chapter 3D 2334&chunk book Strabo s book 11 on line fr icon http portail.atilf.fr cgi bin getobject ?a.113 435. var artfla encyclopedie textdata IMAGE Encyclo ... more details
Image Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker.JPG thumb right Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker 4 November 1784 &ndash 17 December 1868 , Germany German philologist and archaeologist , was born at Gr nberg , Landgraviate of Hesse Darmstadt Hesse Darmstadt . Having studied classical philology at the University of Giessen , he was appointed 1803 master in the high school, an office which he combined with that of lecturer at the university. In 1806 he journeyed to Italy , and was for more than a year private tutor at Rome in the family of Wilhelm von Humboldt , who became his friend and correspondent. Welcker returned to Giessen in 1808, and resuming his school teaching and university lectures was in the following year appointed the first professor of Greek literature and archaeology at that or any German university. After serving as a volunteer in the campaign of 1814 he went to Copenhagen to edit the posthumous papers of the Danish archaeologist J rgen Zoega Georg Zoega 1755 1809 , and published his biography, Zoegas Leben Stutt. 1819 . His liberalism in politics having brought him into conflict with the university authorities of Giessen, he exchanged that university for university of G ttingen G ttingen in 1816, and three years later received a chair at the new University of Bonn , where he established the art museum and the library, of which he became the first librarian . In 1841 1843 he travelled in Greece and Italy cf. his Tagebuch , Berlin, 1865 , retired from the librarianship in 1854, and in 1861 from his professorship, but continued to reside at Bonn until his death. Welcker was a pioneer in the field of archaeology, and was one of the first to insist, in opposition to the narrow methods of the older Hellenists, on the necessity of co ordinating the study of Greek art and religion with philology. Besides early work on Aristophanes , Pindar , and Sappho , whose character he vindicated, he edited Alcman 1815 , Hipponax 1817 , Theognis of Megara Theognis ... more details
Image Bias Pio Clementino Inv279.jpg thumb right 220px Hermaic pillar representing Bias of Priene, Vatican Museums Bias Greek , 6th century BCE , the son of Teutamus and a citizen of Priene was a ancient Greece Greek philosopher. Satyrus the Peripatetic Satyrus puts him as the wisest of all the Seven Sages of Greece . He was renowned for his goodness. One of the examples of his great goodness is the legend that says that he paid a ransom for some women who had been taken prisoner. After educating them as his own daughters, he sent them back to Messina , their homeland, and to their fathers. Honours Also it is said that when some fishermen found The Brazen Tripod on which was inscripted For the Wisest , the fathers of the damsels came into an assembly. They concluded that Bias was the wisest among all men, so the tripod was presented to him as a token of gratitude for all that he had done for the city. Bias refused the honor with the words Apollo is the wisest . Another author notes that he consecrated the tripod at Thebes Greece Thebes to Hercules . Some of his sayings The na ve men are easily fooled. Most people are evil. All men are wicked. It is difficult to bear a change of fortune for the worse with magnanimity . Choose the course which you adopt with deliberation but when you have adopted it, then persevere in it with firmness. Do not speak fast, for that shows folly. Love prudence. Speak of the Gods as they are. Do not praise an undeserving man because of his riches. Accept of things, having procured them by persuasion, not by force. Cherish wisdom as a means of traveling from youth to old age, for it is more lasting than any other possession. Work It is said that he was very energetic and eloquent when pleading causes but that he always reserved his talents for the right side. In reference to which Demodicus of Alerius uttered the following enigmatical saying&mdash If you are a judge, give a Prienian decision. And Hipponax says, More excellen ... more details
observes that in the following century she has been further Hellenized by Hipponax as Kyb b , daughter of Zeus . ref Bremmer 2004 539 notes Hipponax Fr 125 Degani equivalent to Fr 127 West. ref The Phrygian ... more details
, Greek Elegiac Poetry , Loeb 1999 , page 72 ref According to the poet Hipponax , Mimnermus when ... Hipponax fr. 153 W., cited and annotated by Douglas E. Gerber, Greek Elegiac Poetry , Loeb 1999 , page ... more details
Ancient Greek religion A Pharmak s lang el in Ancient Greek religion was a kind of human scapegoat a slave, a cripple or a criminal who was chosen and expelled from the community at times of disaster famine, invasion or plague or at times of calendrical crisis, when purification was needed. On the first day of the Thargelia , a festival of Apollo at Athens, two men, the Pharmakoi , were led out as if to be sacrificed as an expiation. Some scholia state that pharmakoi were actually sacrificed thrown from a cliff or burned , but many modern scholars reject this, arguing that the earliest source for the pharmakos the iambic satirist Hipponax shows the pharmakos being beaten and stoned, but not executed. Walter Burkert and Ren Girard have written influential modern interpretations of the pharmakos rite. Burkert shows that humans were sacrificed or expelled after being well fed, and, according to some sources, their ashes were scattered to the ocean. This was a purification ritual, a form of societal catharsis. ref Walter Burkert. Greek Religion , p. 82. ref Pharmakos is also used as a vital term in Derridian Deconstruction . In his famous essay Plato s Pharmacy ref Dissemination, translated by Barbara Johnson, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1981 ref , Derrida deconstructs several texts by Plato , such as Phaedrus dialogue Phaedrus , and reveals the inter connection between the word chain pharmakeia pharmakon pharmakeus and the notably absent word pharmakos . In doing so, he attacks the boundary between inside and outside, declaring that the outside pharmakos, never uttered by Plato is always already present right behind the inside pharmakeia pharmakon pharmakeus . As a concept, Pharmakos can be said to be related to other Derridian terms such as trace . Some scholars have connected the practice of ostracism , in which a prominent politician was exiled from Athens after a vote using pottery pieces, with the pharmakos custom. However, the ostracism exile ... more details
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