Theopompus (Greek: Θεόπομπος, Theópompos; c. 380 BC – c. 315 BC) was an ancient Greek historian and rhetorician. Theopompus was born on the Aegean island...
king beloved of the gods, Theopompus, through whom we took Messene with wide dancing-grounds. Pausanias reports that Theopompus was succeeded by his grandson...
story to King Midas according to Theopompus's Philippica. Although Atlantis was incredibly big by Plato's account, Theopompus describes Meropis as even bigger...
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information, although rarely did he name his sources (see, exceptionally, Theopompus). Polybius wrote several works, most of which are lost. His earliest work...
William Hamilton in the 1830s. It occurs along with the name Gaius Julius Theopompus, a friend of Julius Caesar, also mentioned by Plutarch. From the inscription...
however, the first king was Perdiccas I. Caranus is first reported by Theopompus and is the mythical founder of the Argead dynasty. According to a Greek...
Aristomenes the Messenian sacrificed 300 men to Zeus of Ithome...[including] Theopompus the Lacedaemonian (Spartan) king, a noble victim." The rite was supposedly...
the markets of Byzantion were mentioned first by Xenophon and then by Theopompus who wrote that Byzantians "spent their time at the market and the harbour"...
"fetched its weight in silver" in the fourth century BC, according to Theopompus. The discovery of large numbers of Murex shells on Crete suggests the...
works he drew include Hecataeus of Abdera, Ctesias of Cnidus, Ephorus, Theopompus, Hieronymus of Cardia, Duris of Samos, Diyllus, Philistus, Timaeus, Polybius...
the plain account of the heroic chariot race. In the first related by Theopompus, having received the horses, Pelops hastens to Pisa to defeat Oenomaus...
Euryleon, a noble Spartan and a Cadmid, with Polydorus on his left and Theopompus on the right. The latter in his harangue appealed to glory, wealth and...
remaining its king. Meropis Philippica Parody of Atlantis created by Theopompus of Chios. Meruza Aconcagua Andean mountainous country, from the Japanese...
Writing only a few decades after the Timaeus and Critias, the historian Theopompus of Chios wrote of a land beyond the ocean known as Meropis. This description...
metallic copper and zinc ores had been introduced. The 4th century BC writer Theopompus, quoted by Strabo, describes how heating earth from Andeira in Turkey...
century BC (but quoting a now lost work of the 4th century BC historian Theopompus) mentions "drops of false silver" which when mixed with copper make brass...
Schools and Universities, by T. Mitchell, John Murray, 1839. GS Shrimpton, Theopompus The Historian, McGill-Queens, 1991. RA Bauslaugh, The Concept of Neutrality...
BC), and Chios became independent again until the rise of Macedonia. Theopompus returned to Chios with the other exiles in 333 BC after Alexander had...
roughly 700 years after the Spartan king), Polydorus and his co-king Theopompus changed the constitution of Sparta so that the Kings and the Gerousia...
mention of his name under penalty of death. However, the ancient historian Theopompus, who was not Ephesian but rather Chian, mentions the name of Herostratus...
(Βαύκις) of Troezen. Euthymenes (Εὐθυμένης) of Maenalus. Theopompus (Θεόπομπος), son of Theopompus. Pantarces (Παντάρκης) of Elis. Pherias (Φερίας) of Aegina...
Anaximenes was hostile to Theopompus, whom he sought to discredit with a libelous parody, Trikaranos, published in Theopompus' style and under his name...
University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-03177-7. Shrimpton, G. (1991). Theopompus The Historian. McGill-Queen's Press. ISBN 978-0-7735-0837-8. Sicking,...
in the expedition were adjudged slaves and were named helots", while Theopompus (fragment 122), cited by Athenaeus (VI, 416c), states, "...and the one...
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