Stesimbrotos of Thasos
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Stesimbrotos of Thasos (Ancient Greek: Στησίμβροτος; c. 470 BC – c. 420 BC) was a sophist, a rhapsode and logographer, a writer on history, and an opponent of Pericles and reputed author of a political pamphlet On Themistocles, Thucydides, and Pericles. Plutarch used writings by Stesimbrotos in his Life of Pericles, asserting that the coolness between Pericles and his son Xanthippos was due to Pericles seducing his daughter-in-law. Walter Burkert has suggested Stesimbrotos as the author of the Derveni papyrus (Burkert 1987:44, 58 n.6). According to Plato's Ion, he was also known for his literary interpretations of Homer.
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- Sophists
- Ancient Greek epic poets
- Ancient Thasians
- Philosophers of ancient Macedonia
- Early Greek historians
- 5th-century BC historians
- Metics in Classical Athens
- 470s BC births
- 420s BC deaths
- Ancient Greek writer stubs
- 5th-century BC Greek people