Stesimbrotos of Thasos
Stesimbrotos of Thasos (c. 470 BC – c. 420 BC) was a sophist, a rhapsode and logographer, a writer on history, and an opponent of Pericles and reputed author of a political pamphlet On Themistocles, Thucydides, and Pericles.
Stesimbrotos of Thasos
- Born
- 470 · Thasos.
- Died
- 420 · Athens.
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- historian · writer
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- history
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- Ancient Greek
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Stesimbrotos of Thasos (c. 470 BC – c. 420 BC) was a sophist, a rhapsode and logographer, a writer on history, and an opponent of Pericles and reputed author of a political pamphlet On Themistocles, Thucydides, and Pericles.
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Plutarch used writings by Stesimbrotos in his Life of Pericles, asserting that the coolness between Pericles and his son Xanthippus was due to Pericles seducing his daughter-in-law. Walter Burkert has suggested Stesimbrotos as the author of the Derveni papyrus (Burkert 1987:44, 58 n.6). According to Plato's Ion, he was also known for his literary interpretations of Homer.
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420
Stesimbrotos of Thasos died at Athens.
470
Stesimbrotos of Thasos born at Thasos.
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