Английская Википедия:Antimachus

Материал из Онлайн справочника
Перейти к навигацииПерейти к поиску

Файл:Antimaco di Colofone.jpg
Herm of Antimachus from Colophon

Шаблон:Short description

Шаблон:Other uses

Antimachus of Colophon (Шаблон:Lang-el), or of Claros, was a Greek poet and grammarian, who flourished about 400 BC.Шаблон:Sfn

Life

Scarcely anything is known of his life. The Suda claims that he was a pupil of the poets Panyassis and Stesimbrotus.[1]

Work

His poetical efforts were not generally appreciated, although he received encouragement from his younger contemporary Plato (Plutarch, Lysander, 18).Шаблон:Sfn The emperor Hadrian, however, would later consider him superior to Homer.[2]

His chief works were: an epic Thebaid, an account of the expedition of the Seven against Thebes and the war of the Epigoni; and an elegiac poem Lyde, so called from the poet's mistress, for whose death he endeavoured to find consolation telling stories from mythology of heroic disasters (Plutarch, Consul, ad Apoll. 9; Athenaeus xiii. 597).Шаблон:Sfn

Antimachus was the founder of "learned" epic poetry, and the forerunner of the Alexandrian school, whose critics allotted him the next place to Homer. He also prepared a critical recension of the Homeric poems.Шаблон:Sfn

He is to be distinguished from Antimachus of Teos, a much earlier poet to whom the lost Cyclic epic Epigoni was apparently ascribed (though the attribution may result from confusion).

Bibliography

  • Fragments, ed. Stoll (1845); Bergk
  • Poetae Lyrici Graeci (1882); Kinkel
  • Fragmenta epicorum Graecorum (1877). 20th century ed: V.J. Matthews
  • Antimachus of Colophon, text and commentary (Leiden : Brill, 1996) Шаблон:ISBN

References

Шаблон:Reflist Attribution:

External links

Шаблон:Authority control

  1. Suda α 2681
  2. Cassius Dio, 69.4.6.