Alexamenus of Teos

Alexamenus of Teos (Greek: Τήιος 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]

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References

  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. p. 110.
  3. POxy. 3219
  4. Paul A. Vander Waerdt, The Socratic Movement, page 33. Cornell University Press
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