Theopompus

1. Demosthenes Plutarch 2 authority · 3 neutral · 1 refuted · 1 extended 7 citations

   chapter 4 · chapter 13 · chapter 14 · chapter 18 2 passages anchored here · chapter 21 · chapter 25

   The claim about Demosthenes' father's civic standing is reported as a plain historical fact from Theopompus.

   Demosthenes, the father of Demosthenes, belonged to the better class of citizens, as Theopompus tells us, and was surnamed Cutler, because he had a large factory and slaves who were skilled workmen in this business.

2. Themistocles Plutarch 1 neutral · 1 refuted 2 citations · 3 passages

   chapter 19 · chapter 25 · chapter 31

   Plutarch reports Theopompus' version of the bribery of the Ephors and his figure for Themistocles' confiscated property without endorsing or rejecting them outright.

   After the great achievements now described, he straightway undertook to rebuild and fortify the city,—as Theopompus relates, by bribing the Spartan Ephors not to oppose the project;

3. Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 neutral 1 citation

   oration 88

   Theopompus is cited and assessed neutrally/favorably as second-rank.

   For he too has something rhetorical about the delivery of his discourses, and is neither without power nor careless in interpretation, and the easygoing quality of his diction is not so base as to grieve you.

4. Vitae philosophorum Diogenes Laertius 1 neutral 1 citation · 3 passages

   book 1 3 passages anchored here

   Theopompus is repeatedly invoked as a reporting authority across separate claims.

   Theopompus tells us that he was the first who wrote in Greek on nature and the gods.

5. Agesilaus Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation

   chapter 10

   Theopompus is explicitly named as having independently affirmed Agesilaus's greatness.

   And he was confessedly the greatest and most illustrious man of his time, as Theopompus also has somewhere said, although he prided himself more on his virtues than on his high command.

6. Dion Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation

   chapter 24

   Theopompus is named at the close of the window as the authority the author relies on for the account of these portents, functioning as a source of legitimacy for the report.

   Such, at all events, is the account which Theopompus has given.

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