Alexamenus of Teos

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Alexamenus of Teos, (Gr. Ἀλεξαμενός) was, according to Aristotle in his dialogue, On Poets, the first person who wrote Socratic dialogues before the time of Plato.[1][2] An Aristotelian papyrus from Oxyrhynchus[3] claims that this is merely malicious gossip by Aristotle.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ Athenaeus, xi. 505c; Diogenes Laërtius, iii. 48.
  2. ^ Smith, William (1867). "Alexamenus". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 110. http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0119.html. 
  3. ^ POxy. 3219
  4. ^ Paul A. Vander Waerdt, The Socratic Movement, page 33. Cornell University Press

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).