Philoxenus of Cythera (Greek: Φιλόξενος ὁ Κυθήριος; c. 435/4 – 380/79 BC)[1] was a Greek dithyrambic poet, an exponent of the "New Music".[2] He was one of the most important dithyrambic poets of ancient Greece.[3]
poets of ancient Greece. A few details ofPhiloxenus' life are known. According to the Suda, Philoxenus was the son of Eulytides, from Cythera. On the...
juxtaposition for Philoxenus' audience. Philoxenus' Cyclops is also referred to in Aristotle's Poetics in a section that discusses representations of people in...
have been known, the next mention possibly came from a lost work ofPhiloxenusofCythera (435~434 – 380~379 BC), a dithyrambic poet. Pliny the Elder mentions...
Zeus is about seven times life size (or 13 metres) and occupies the full height of the temple. PhiloxenusofCythera, Greek dithyrambic poet (d. 380 BC)...
the story was first concocted by PhiloxenusofCythera as a political satire against the Sicilian tyrant Dionysius I of Syracuse, whose favourite concubine...
experiments of the poets of the 'new music'." This movement included the poets Timotheus of Miletus, Cinesias, Melanippides, and PhiloxenusofCythera. By the...
king of Sparta PhiloxenusofCythera, Greek dithyrambic poet (b. 435 BC) Hakor, king of the Twenty-ninth dynasty of Egypt Nefaarud II, son of Hakor and...
religious reasons as well as secular. PhiloxenusofCythera describes in detail some cakes that were eaten as part of an elaborate dinner using the traditional...
it was a type of 'flat cake'. Similar cakes are described by PhiloxenusofCythera. In Sicyon, Cleisthenes had usurped power on behalf of an Ionian minority...
[ˈciθira], also transliterated as Cythera, Kythera and Kithira) is an island in Greece lying opposite the south-eastern tip of the Peloponnese peninsula. It...
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5th century BCE. PhiloxenusofCythera (435 BC–380 BC) a dithyrambic poet. Phocylides gnomic poet of Miletus, contemporary of Theognis of Megara, born about...
II, king of Persia (approximate date) (d. 358 BC) 435 BC PhiloxenusofCythera, Greek dithyrambic poet (d. 380 BC) 432 BC Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse...
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