LC control no. | n 87949115 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PA3968.D62 |
Personal name heading | Dioscorus, of Aphrodito |
Variant(s) | Aphrodito, Dioscorus of Dioscore, d'Aphrodité Dioscoro, di Aphrodito Διόσκορος, of Aphrodito Dioskoros, of Aphrodito |
Ending date | 0585 |
Associated country | Egypt |
Associated place | Aphrodito (Extinct city) Aphrodito (Extinct city) |
Birth date | 0520~ |
Place of death | Egypt |
Profession or occupation | Poets Lawyers |
Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
Found in | MacCoull, L.S.B. Dioscorus of Aphrodito, c1988: CIP galley (lawyer and poet; Copt) bk. jacket, etc. (6th cent. Christian Egyptian; wrote in Coptic and Greek; b. ca. 520; 585 last dated document) Lessico dei carmi di Dioscoro di Aphrodito, 1995. Hellénisme dans l'Egypte du VIe siècle ... 1999: v. 1, t.p. (Dioscore d'Aphrodité) Brill's new Pauly online, 4 March 2013 (Dioscorus; Διόσκορος; Coptic advocate and poet from Aphrodito in Upper Egypt, ca AD 520-585; writings preserved in Coptic and Greek) Dictionary of African Biography , accessed January 14, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Dioscorus of Aphrodito; poet, lawyer; born fl.0500 Kom Ishqaw, Egypt; commanded considerable economic and agricultural resources; asserted his right to autopragia or self-collection of required taxes; traveled to the imperial capital of Constantinople and pursued the affairs of his village; served as a property manager for his father's monastery (570s); also served as a private business manager for the affairs of a Roman count named Ammonios; occasionally was employed as a lawyer in the provincial capital Antinopolis; created several petitions and poems in his hand (late 560s); his poetry is new and creative fusion between native Egyptian and Greco-Roman cultures; died in Egypt) |
Not found in | Oxford classical dict., 1970; Ency. Brit., 1982; Collier ency., 1973; To archaion Hellēnikon pneuma; Megalē Hellēnikē enkykl. |
Associated language | grc cop |