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MARONIA (Ancient city) RODOPI
Athenion, a painter, born at Maroneia in Thrace. He was a pupil of Glaucion of Corinth, and a contemporary probably of Nicias, whom he resembled and excelled, though his style was harsher. He gave promise of the highest excellence in his art, but died young. (Plin. H. N. xxxv. 11. s. 40.29)
MARONIA (Ancient city) RODOPI
A Greek poet from Maroneia in Thrace, who lived at Alexandria
under Ptolemy Philadelphus about B.C. 276. He is said to have been drowned in
the sea in a leaden chest for some sarcastic remark about the marriage of the
king with his own sister Arsinoe. He composed in Ionic dialect and in a peculiar
metre named after him (Sotadeus or Sotadicus versus, Sotadeia aismata) poems called
kinaidoi or phluakes, malicious satires partly on indelicate subjects, which were
intended for recitation accompanied by a mimic dance, and also travesties of mythological
subjects, such as the Iliad of Homer. He found numerous imitators.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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