Phocylides

Phocylides of Miletus was an ancient Greek poet of Miletus, who lived around 540 BC.

Phocylides be of various authors of antiquity - attributed gnomes who were drafted according to the Suda in hexameters and elegiac verse - including Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Strabo, Dio Chrysostom, Athenaeus and Clement of Alexandria. As the gnomes of Demodocus of Leros begin his epigrams with the introduction " This, too, says Phocylides ". Apart from a four-line epigram in which he attacks the Lerianer, he wrote in one to achtversigen hexameters.

The assignment of the work is very controversial. Martin L. West assigns Phocylides to only the hexameter aphorisms, the rest of the work the Demodocus. A long attributed to him didactic poem of 230 verses is now attributed to another poet, the Notnamen the pseudo - Phocylides they gave in research.

Text output

• Theognis. Early Greek elegies. Greek and German. Introduced, translated and annotated by Dirk Uwe Hansen. University Press, Darmstadt 2005, ISBN 3-534-18133-6 ( review ).
• Theognidis et Phocylidis fragmenta et adespota quaedam gnomica. Edited by M. L. West. de Gruyter, Berlin - New York 1978, ISBN 3-11-007764-7.