Philetas of Cos
Rodolfo Amoedo · Public domain
- Born
- 400 · Kos.
- Died
- 360 · Kos.
- Nationality
- Ptolemaic Kingdom
- Occupation
- lexicographer · epigrammatist · poet · grammarian
- Languages
- Ancient Greek
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Zenodotus, Theocritus and Hermesianax are recorded as having studied under Philetas of Cos. The recorded working language is Ancient Greek.
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- 2.Spanoudakis. Philitas of Cos. 26.
- 3.John Edwin Sandys. A History of Classical Scholarship: from the Sixth Century B.C. to the End of the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Press. 118–9. 1903. 2759759.
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- 6.Spanoudakis. Philitas of Cos. 29.
- 7.Alan Cameron. How thin was Philitas?. The Classical Quarterly. 41. 2. 534–8. 1991. 10.1017/S0009838800004717.
- 8.Andrew Stewart. The New Posidippus. 183–205. 2005.
- 9.Frank Nisetich. The New Posidippus. 17–66. 2005.
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- 11.Athenaeus (tr. C.D. Yonge). The Gastronomers, 9.401e. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
- 12.Paul Vincent Spade. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2009.
- 13.St. George Stock. Stoicism. Archibald Constable. 36. 1908. 1201330.
- 14.Alexander Sens. The new Posidippus, Asclepiades, and Hecataeus' Philitas-statue. The Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association. 206–28. 2002.
- 15.Spanoudakis. Philitas of Cos. 215–7.
- 16.Athenaeus (tr. C.D. Yonge). The Gastronomers, 11.495e. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
- 17.Peter Bing. The unruly tongue: Philitas of Cos as scholar and poet. Classical Philology. 98. 4. 330–48. 2003. 10.1086/422370.
- 18.N. Hopkinson. Coi sacra Philitae. The Classical Review. 53. 2. 311–2. 2003. 10.1093/cr/53.2.311.
- 19.S.J. Heyworth. Callimachus II. Peeters. 139–60. 2004. 90-429-1403-3.
- 20.Kathryn Gutzwiller. A Guide to Hellenistic Literature. Blackwell. 166–7. 2007. 978-0-631-23321-3.
- 21.Spanoudakis. Philitas of Cos. 209–13.
- 22.Bulloch, "Hellenistic poetry", p. 5.
- 23.Bulloch, "Hellenistic poetry", p. 4. "The most important intellectual figure in the early years of the new Hellenistic world was Philetas from the east Greek island of Cos."
- 24.Bulloch, "Hellenistic poetry", p. 4.
- 25.Pfeiffer, Rudolf. The future of studies in the field of Hellenistic poetry. Journal of Hellenic Studies. 75. 69–73. 1955. 10.2307/629171.
- 26.Alex Hardie. Philitas and the plane tree. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 119. 21–36. 1997.
- 27.Strabo. Geography, 14.2.19 (in Greek). A. Meineke (ed.). Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Retrieved 2010-02-23.
- 28.Spanoudakis. Philitas of Cos. 85–346.
- 29.Archibald Allen. Propertius and 'Coan Philitas'. The Classical Quarterly. 46. 1. 308–9. 1996. 10.1093/cq/46.1.308.
- 30.Ovid, 3.329–330 and 759-760; see Damer, E. Z. (2014). "Gender Reversals and Intertextuality in Tibullus". Classical World, 493–514; page 500.
- 31.Quintilian (tr. John Selby Watson). Institutes of Oratory, 10.1.58 . Retrieved 2009-08-26.
- 32.Richard Hunter. The Novel in the Ancient World. Brill. 361–86. 1996. 90-04-09630-2.
- 33.Livio Sbardella. Brill's New Pauly—Antiquity, Vol. 11 (Phi–Prok). Brill. 49–50. 2007. 978-90-04-14216-9.
- 34.Spanoudakis. Philitas of Cos. 19–22.
- 35.Konstantinos Spanoudakis. Author's response. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 2003.03.32. 2003.
- 36.Carol. Phil. (Karl Philipp) Kayser. Philetae Coi Fragmenta, quæ reperiuntur. Typis Barmeierianis. 1793. 79432710.
- 37.Nicolaus Bachius (Bach). Philetae Coi, Hermesianactis Colophonii, atque Phanoclis Reliquiae. Libraria Gebaueria. 1829. 165342613.
- 38.Adelbertus (Adelbert) Nowacki. Philitae Coi Fragmenta Poetica. Monasterii Westfalorum. 1927. 68721017.
- 39.Wilhelm Kuchenmü̈ller. Philetae Coi Reliquiae. Typis Roberti Noske. 1928. 65409641.
- 40.Ernestus (Ernst) Maass. De tribus Philetae carminibus. N. G. Elwertum. 1895. 9861455.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Konstantinos Spanoudakis. Author's response. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. Brill. 2003.03.32. 2003. 90-04-12428-4 Reviewed by Hopkinson and by [[Alexander Sens.
- Emanuele Dettori. Filita grammatico: Testimonianze e frammenti: introduzione, edizione e commento. Quasar. 2000. 88-7140-185-9.
- Livio Sbardella. Filita: Testimonianze e frammenti poetici: introduzione, edizione e commento. Quasar. 2000. 88-7140-182-4.
- Évelyne Prioux, «Le Portrait Perdu et Retrouvé Du Poète Philitas de Cos: Posidippe 63 A.-B. et IG XIV, 2486», Zeitschrift für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik, vol. 166, 2008, p. 66–72.
- Évelyne Prioux, «Le portrait perdu et retrouvé du poète Philitas de Cos», Bulletin de la Société française d’études épigraphiques sur Rome et le monde romain. Année 2009, dans Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz, 2009, tome 20, (lire en ligne).
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