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Phocylides, active 544 B.C.-541 B.C

LC control no.n 86122591
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingPhocylides, active 544 B.C.-541 B.C.
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Variant(s)Phocylides, fl. 544-541 B.C.
Phocylides, of Miletus, fl. 544 B.C.
Phōkylidēs, active 544 B.C.-541 B.C.
Φωκυλίδης, active 544 B.C.-541 B.C.
See alsoPseudo-Phocylides
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Beginning date-0543
Ending date-0540
Special noteNon-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inTheognis. Theognidis et Phocylidis fragmenta et adespota quaedam gnomica, 1978: t.p. (Phocylidis)
Oxford class. dict. (Phocylides, fl. 544-541 B.C., ele giac and hexameter poet of Miletus)
LC data base, 5-13-87 (hdg.: Phocylides, of Miletus, fl. 544 B.C.)
Papyros-Larous. (Phōkylidēs)
Brill's New Pauly, 2002: v. 11, column 145 (Phocylides; Φωκυλίδης; Greek poet from Miletus who wrote hexameters and elegiac gnomai; his gnomai contain the phrase και τοδε Φωκθλιδου; an epigram attacking the Lerians attributed to him by some is attributed by West to Demoducus)
Greek elegiac poetry, 1999: p. 389 (Phocylides; contemporary of Theognis; flourished 544-41 B.C.; wrote hexameters and elegies containing admonitions)
Horst, P. The Sentences of Pseudo-Phocylides: p. 4 (in 1606 Joseph Scaliger questioned whether the poem Sentences was actually written by Phocylides because it lacked the attribution kai tode Phōkylideō [romanized], was similar to Biblical verses, and was never referenced in antiquity making the author probably a Jew or a Christian)