Antimachus of Colophon

Antimachus of Colophon was an ancient Greek poet and grammarian from Colophon . It was probably not very long after the middle of the 5th century BC. Born and perhaps still lived in the early 4th century BC. Chr.

With his two main works, the epic Thebais (about the two mythical Theban Wars ) and an elegy cycle named after his late lover Lyde , which dealt with the myths about the death of separated lovers, he was the founder of the epic . As such, he was the forerunner and model of the Alexandrians , who placed him right after Homer because of his erudition . The fragments of his poetry show a harsh and sought-after, often bombastic language and reveal more art and learning than poetry. As a grammarian, he did a review of Homeric poems.

Text output

Bernhard Wyss (Ed.): Antimachi Colophonii reliquiae. Weidmann, Berlin 1936

literature

Marco Fantuzzi: Antimachos 3rd In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , column 759 f.
Michael Reichel : Epic Poetry. 4. Pseudo-Homerica and other epics of the archaic and classical epochs. In: Bernhard Zimmermann (Hrsg.): The literature of the archaic and classical times (= manual of the Greek literature of antiquity , volume 1). Beck, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3406-57673-7 , pp. 66-78, here: 76 f.
Georg Wentzel : Antimachos 24 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2434-2436. - Outdated state of research

Web links

Literature by and about Antimachos von Kolophon in the catalog of the German National Library

personal data
SURNAME	Antimachus of Colophon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Antimachus Colophonius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek poet and grammarian
DATE OF BIRTH	5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	5th century BC BC or 4th century BC Chr.