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Theodectes, (Theodektes). Of Phaselis, in Lycia, a Greek rhetorician and tragic poet. He carried off the prize eight times, and in B.C. 351 his tragedy of Mausolus was victorious in the tragic contest instituted by Queen Artemisia in honour of her deceased husband Mausolus. In the rhetorical contest, held at the same time, he was defeated by Theopompus. Only unimportant fragments of his fifty tragedies are extant.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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Critolaus (Kritolaos), the Peripatetic philosopher, was a native of Phaselis,
a Greek colony in Lycia, and studied philosophy at Athens under Ariston of Ceos,
whom he succeeded as the head of the Peripatetic school. The great reputation
which Critolaus enjoyed at Athens, as a philosopher, an orator, and a statesman,
induced the Athenians to send him to Rome in B. C. 155, together with Carneades
the Academic and Diogenes the Stoic, to obtain a remission of the fine of 500
talents which the Romans had imposed upon Athens for the destruction of Oropus.
They were successful in the object for which they came; and the embassy excited
the greatest interest at Rome. Not only the Roman youth, but the most illustrious
men in the state, such as Scipio Africanus, Laelius, Furius, and others, came
to listen to their discourses. The novelty of their doctrines seemed to the Romans
of the old school to be fraught with such danger to the morals of the citizens,
that Cato induced the senate to send them away from Rome as quickly as possible
(Plut. Cat. Maj. 22; Gell. vii. 14; Macrob. Saturn. i. 5; Cic. de Orat. ii. 37,
38). We have no further information respecting the life of Critolaus. He lived
upwards of eighty-two years, but died before the arrival of L. Crassus at Athens,
that is, before B. C. 111 (Lucian, Macrob. 20; Cic. de Orat. i. 11).
Critolaus seems to have paid particular attention to Rhetoric, though
he considered it, like Aristotle, not as an art, but rather as a matter of practice
(tribe). Cicero speaks in high terms of his eloquence (Quintil. ii. 15.23, 17.15;
Sext. Empir. adv. Mathem. ii. 12; Cic. de Fin. v. 5). Next to Rhetoric, Critolaus
seems to have given his chief attention to the study of moral philosophy, and
to have made some additions to Aristotle's system (comp. Cic. Tusc. v. 17; Clem.
Alex. Strom. ii.), but upon the whole he deviated very little from the philosophy
of the founder of the Peripatetic school. (Stahr, Aristotelia, ii.)
A Critolaus is mentioned by Plutarch (Parall. min. cc. 6, 9) as the
author of a work on Epeirus, and of another entitled Phainomena; and Gellius (xi.
9) also speaks of an historical writer of this name. Whether the historian is
the same as the Peripatetic philosopher, cannot be determined. A grammarian Critolaus
is mentioned in the Etymologicum Magnum (s. v. e d hos).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Nov 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Lacritus (Lakritos), a sophist, a native of Phaselis, known to us chiefly from the speech of Demosthenes against him. A man named Androcles had lent a sum of money to Artemo, the brother of Lacritus. The latter, on the death of his brother, refused to refund the money, though he had become security for his brother, and was his heir. Hence the suit instituted against him by Androcles, for whom Demosthenes composed the speech in question. Lacritus was a pupil of Isocrates, of which he seems to have been rather vain. (Dem. in Lacr.) Photius (Cod. 260) speaks of him likewise as the author of some Athenian laws. (Plut. Dec. Orat.)
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2006 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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