Sotades
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- tlg1691
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- urn:cite:perseus:author.1318
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- tlg1691
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- LCCN n 85354953
- Name:
- Sotades
- Abbr:
- Sotad.
- Alt names:
- Σωτάδης
Sotade
Sotades, Lyricus
Sotad.
- Field of activity:
- Poet
Iambographer
- Notes:
- Pretagostini, R. Ricerche sulla poesia alessandrina, 1984: t.p.
(Sotade)
Oxford class. dict. (Sotades, iambic poet, of Maronea)
Encycl. Brit. (Sotades, 3rd cent. B.C., Greek satirist)
TLG Canon of Greek Authors and Works, Third Edition, pg. 369
Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Vol 3,
1867, p. 888: "Sotades (2), a native of Maroneia in Thrace....flourished in Alexandria about
B.C. 280. He wrote lascivious poems.....Of his works, we possess a few lines.."
Brill's New Pauly: "Sotades, 2, Hellenistic poet, 3rd cent. BC:
"Sotades of Maronea, The stichic verse form named after S., the Sotadeus, consists of three
largely Ionic metres, ionici a maiore ....and a spondeus..... . He re-wrote the Iliad in
Sotadea (fr. 4a-c CollAlex) in a completely different style, a prime example of his rich
Alexandrian imagination. .." Furley, William D. (Heidelberg). "Sotades." Brill's New Pauly.
Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider . Brill, 2009. Brill
Online. Tufts University Library
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