Phocylides of Miletus

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Phokylides of Miletus ( Greek  Φωκυλίδης ο Μιλήσιος ) was an ancient Greek poet from Miletus who lived around 540 BC. Lived.

Phokylides are attributed to gnomes by various authors from antiquity - including Plato , Aristotle , Cicero , Strabo , Dion Chrysostom , Athenaios and Clement of Alexandria - who, according to the Suda , were written in hexameters and elegiac meter . Like the gnomes of Demodokos of Leros , his sayings begin with the introduction "This too says Phokylides". Apart from a four-line epigram in which he attacks the Lerians, he wrote in one- to eight-verse hexameters.

The assignment of the work is very controversial. Martin Litchfield West only assigns the hexametric aphorisms to Phokylides, the rest of the work to Demodokos. A didactic poem of 230 verses that was long ascribed to him is now ascribed to another poet, who was given the emergency name Pseudo-Phokylides in research .

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  • Theognis. Early Greek elegies. Greek and German . Introduced, translated and commented by Dirk Uwe Hansen . Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-18133-6 ( review ).
  • Theognidis et Phocylidis fragmenta et adespota quaedam gnomica . Published by ML West. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1978, ISBN 3-11-007764-7 .

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SURNAME Phocylides of Miletus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Phokylides, Φωκυλίδης ο Μιλήσιος (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Greek poet
DATE OF BIRTH before 540 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 6th century BC BC or 5th century BC Chr.