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Dioscorus, of Aphrodito

LC control no.n 87949115
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPA3968.D62
Personal name headingDioscorus, of Aphrodito
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Variant(s)Aphrodito, Dioscorus of
Dioscore, d'Aphrodité
Dioscoro, di Aphrodito
Διόσκορος, of Aphrodito
Dioskoros, of Aphrodito
Ending date0585
Associated countryEgypt
Associated placeAphrodito (Extinct city)
Aphrodito (Extinct city)
Birth date0520~
Place of deathEgypt
Profession or occupationPoets Lawyers
Special noteNon-Latin script reference not evaluated.
Found inMacCoull, 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 inOxford classical dict., 1970; Ency. Brit., 1982; Collier ency., 1973; To archaion Hellēnikon pneuma; Megalē Hellēnikē enkykl.
Associated languagegrc cop