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KASSANDRIA (Small town) HALKIDIKI
One of the most eminent poets of the New Comedy at Athens, a native of Cassandrea, in Macedonia. He began to exhibit for the first time in the third year after the death of Menander, or in B.C. 289. Of his pieces, as many as forty are mentioned by name, but only fragments of them are preserved. It was probably in imitation of one of these that the Menaechmi of Plautus was written.
Posidippus wrote thirty, or, as some have it, fifty comedies; the
titles of fifteen of these are known, and some of them were Latinized. He began
to exhibit in 289 B.C., two years after the death of Menander, and was one of
the most popular of the new comedians.
Of the new comedy, and of Greek comedy proper, Posidippus was the
last exponent. Other writers have indeed been mentioned, as Rhinthon of Tarentum,
Sopater of Paphos, and Sotades
of Crete, but the tragi-comedy
of Rhinthon was called by a name which signifies "meaningless chatter," and the
indecency of the Sotadean plays made them a by-word of reproach. All belonged
to the age of the Ptolemies, and with the transplanting of Hellenic comedy from
Athens to Alexandria, the
classic drama of Greece was dead.
Alfred Bates, ed.
This text is cited July 2003 from the TheatreHistory URL below.
MENDI (Ancient city) KASSANDRA
Bolus, (Bolos). Under this name Suidas, and Eudocia after him, mention a Pythagorean
phiicropher of Mende, to whom they ascribe several works, which are otherwise
entirely unknown. From this Pythagorean, Suidas distinguishes a Bolus who was
a philosopher of the school of Democritus, who wrote on medicine and also an historical
work. But, from a passage of Columella (vii. 5; comp. Stobaeus, Serm. 51), it
appears that Bolus of Mende and the follower of Democritus were one and the same
person; and he seems to have lived subsequently to the time of Theophrastus, whose
work on plants he appears to have known. (Steph. Byz. s. v. Apsunthos; Schol.
ad Nicand. Theriac. 764.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Sep 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Antimoerus (Antimoiros), a sophist, was a native of Mende in Thrace, and is mentioned with praise among the disciples of Protagoras. (Plat. Protag. Themist. Orat. xxix.)
Perseus Encyclopedia
Paeonius, (Paionios). A Greek sculptor of Mende in Thrace. About B.C. 436 he was employed in the decoration of the temple of Zeus in Olympia. According to Pausanias, he was the sculptor of the marble groups in the front, or eastern, pediment of the temple, representing the preparations for the chariot-race between Pelops and Oenomaus. Important portions of these have been brought to light by German excavators. He was also the sculptor of the figure of Nike, more than life-size, dedicated by the Messenians, which has been restored to us by the same means. With the exception of the head, it is in fairly good preservation.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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