Pittacus of Mytilene ca. 650-ca. 570 B.C
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- urn:cite:perseus:author.1132
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- Name:
- Pittacus of Mytilene ca. 650-ca. 570 B.C
- Abbr:
- Pittac.
- Alt names:
- Septem Sapientes
Πιττακός
Pittacus, Mytilenaeus
بيتاكوس
Pítac, de Mitilene
Pittakos,, z Mytilény
Pittacos, de Mytilène
Pittakos, von Mytilene
Pittaco
Pítaco, de Mitilene
Pittacus, Lyricus
Pittac.
- Field of activity:
- Lyric Poet
Epigrammatist
Septem Sapientes
Seven Sages
- Notes:
- Lissi-Caronna, E. Un'erma-ritratto di Pittaco ... 1979
Ox. class. dict., 2nd ed. (Pittacus of Mytilene, ca. 650-570 B.C.,
statesman and sage)
Enc. Brit., 15th ed. (Pittacus of Mytilene, b. ca. 650, d. ca. 570
B.C., statesman and sage)
TLG Canon of Greek Authors and Works, Third Edition, pg. 321
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol 3,
1867, p. 179-180: "Pittacus, one of those early cultivators of letters, who were designated
as the "Seven Wise Men of Greece," was a native of Mytilene in Lesbos...He was highly
celebrated as a warrior, a statesman, a philosopher and a poet....Pittacus was very
celebrated as an elegeiac poet
Brill's New Pauly: "Tyrant of Mytilene, early 6th cent. BC ...considered
one of the Seven Sages.... Ancient tradition places P. alongside Solon and Charondas in the
ranks of the 'wise law-givers' (Dion. Hal. Ant. Rom. 2,26). Numerous gnomai (Gnome) are
preserved as the 'words of P.'....:
- Author info:
- Wikipedia
- Smith's Dictionary
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