9/21/2023 0 Comments Diogenes laertius poetryHe used to give the dramatists Alexander and Homer materials for their tragedies. 5 When disturbed by maidservants and dogs, he would stop writing, his earnest desire being to maintain tranquillity. At all events there is a story that Hieronymus the Peripatetic said of him, "Just as with the Scythians those who are in flight shoot as well as those who pursue, so, among philosophers, some catch their disciples by pursuing them, some by fleeing from them, as for instance Timon."ġ13 He was quick to perceive anything and to turn up his nose in scorn he was fond of writing and at all times good at sketching plots for poets and collaborating in dramas. Now this philosopher, according to Antigonus, was very fond of gardens and preferred to mind his own affairs. There was another Timon, the misanthrope. I have heard that he had only one eye indeed he used to call himself a Cyclops. He died at the age of nearly ninety, so we learn from Antigonus and from Sotion in his eleventh book. Ye sophists, ye inquisitives, come! follow! P523 later, which is why some have entitled it the Epilogue.ġ12 The first deals with the same subjects, except that the poem is a monologue. In the first he speaks in the first person throughout, the second and third are in the form of dialogues for he represents himself as questioning Xenophanes of Colophon about each philosopher in turn, while Xenophanes answers him in the second he speaks of the more ancient philosophers, in the third of the There are three silli in which, from his point of view as a Sceptic, he abuses every one and lampoons the dogmatic philosophers, using the form of parody. These included epics, tragedies, satyric dramas, thirty comedies and sixty tragedies, besides silli (lampoons) and obscene poems.ġ11 There are also reputed works of his extending to twenty thousand verses which are mentioned by Antigonus of Carystus, who also wrote his life. He was, according to Antigonus, fond of wine, and in the time that he could spare from philosophy he used to write poems. He was known to King Antigonus and to Ptolemy Philadelphus, as his own iambics 2 testify. Living now at Chalcedon as a sophist, he increased his reputation still further and, having made his fortune, went to Athens, where he lived until his death, except for a short period which he spent at Thebes. Timon, however, found himself without means of support and sailed to the Hellespont and Propontis. After that he went to Pyrrho at Elis with his wife, and lived there until his children were born the elder of these he called Xanthus, taught him medicine, and made him his heir.ġ10 This son was a man of high repute, as we learn from Sotion in his eleventh book. P521 took a dislike to that pursuit and went abroad to Megara to stay with Stilpo then after some time he returned home and married. Losing his parents when young, he became a stage-dancer, but later 109 Timon, says our 1 Apollonides of Nicaea in the first book of his commentaries On the Silli, which he dedicated to Tiberius Caesar, was the son of Timarchus and a native of Phlius.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |