Sotades (poet)
Sotades ( Greek Σωτάδης Sōtádēs ) was an ancient Greek poet. He lived in the first half of the 3rd century BC. Chr.
Sotades came from Maroneia in Thrace . Little is known about his life. He worked in Alexandria and reached the peak of his creative power ( Akme ) around 280 BC. According to Plutarch , he was imprisoned on the orders of King Ptolemy II Philadelphus of Egypt because he was angry about verses in which Sotades had mocked his marriage to his biological sister Arsinoë II . Athenaios reports that Sotades was drowned in the sea by the Ptolemaic admiral Patroclus .
Only a few verses have survived from his poems. As far as one can judge by the sparse news, Sotades was very ambivalent in his works from today's point of view : His poems contained clear profanity , sexual and homoerotic motives, but at the same time moralizing ethics . He is considered to be the creator of the palindromes , for which the term Verse des Sotades was used in antiquity , although none of his has survived.
Richard Francis Burton put forward the orientalizing and exoticizing hypothesis that in some parts of the world (North and South America, around the Mediterranean Sea and in large parts of Asia) pederasty was a common and tolerated form of love and, as a result, homosexual relationships were more tolerated were. These areas he named after Sotades as Sotadische zone ( Sotadic zone ).
literature
- Marie-Odile Goulet-Cazé: Sôtadès de Maronée. In: Richard Goulet (ed.): Dictionnaire des philosophes antiques. Volume 6, CNRS Éditions, Paris 2016, ISBN 978-2-271-08989-2 , pp. 495-510
- Doris Meyer: Sotades . In: Bernhard Zimmermann , Antonios Rengakos (Hrsg.): Handbook of the Greek literature of antiquity. Volume 2: The Literature of the Classical and Hellenistic Period. CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-61818-5 , pp. 194-196
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sotades |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Hellenistic poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th century BC Chr. |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maroneia , landscape |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century BC Chr. |
| Place of death | unsure: Alexandria |