Antimachus
historical figure · 9 works · 9 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Antimachus of Colophon · Antimachus of Teos · Antimachus the poet · Antimachus, the epic poet of Teos · his treasurer
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Clouds
A figure named by Just Cause as emblematic of lewdness that will corrupt the youth who follows Unjust Cause.
and in addition to this, he will fill you with the lewdness of Antimachus.
Rhetoric
Poet praised for describing things by the qualities they lack, illustrated by his description of the hill Teumessus.
Also the practice of Antimachus is useful, that of describing a thing by the qualities it does not possess;
for in this way amplification may be carried on ad infinitum.
Stromata
Poet cited as source for a line on the dangers of gifts, reused by Agias.
" And when Antimachus of Teos had said, "For out of gifts come many ills to men," Agias made, "Gifts beguile the mind of men, and their deeds too.
Apollodorus Against Timotheus
Timotheus's treasurer, executed after the political prosecution and invoked in the dispute over the first loan.
When, therefore, the money was paid out, the bank recorded as debtor Timotheus, who had requested the loan, but made a memorandum in the name of Antimachus, to whom Timotheus had ordered the money to be paid, and also named Autonomus, whom Antimachus had sent to the bank to receive the money, the amount being one thousand three hundred and fifty-one drachmae two obols.
It was Timotheus who borrowed the money from my father, and who bade him give it to his treasurer Antimachus, but the one who received the money from Phormio at the bank was Autonomus, who throughout all that time served as secretary to Antimachus.
Regarding the one thousand three hundred and fifty-one drachmae two obols, which he borrowed as the first loan in the month Munichion in the archonship of Socratidas, when he was about to set out on his voyage, and which the defendant ordered to be paid to Antimachus, his treasurer, he declared that my father lent the money to Antimachus on his own private account, and that he (the defendant) did …
For Phormio
Son of Archestratus, invoked as someone with a stronger status-based claim than Apollodorus.
I am surprised that you do not of yourself make this reflection, that Archestratus, to whom your father formerly belonged, has a son here, Antimachus, who fares not at all as he deserves, and who does not go to law with you and say that he is outrageously treated, because you wear a soft mantle, and have redeemed one mistress, and have given another in marriage (all this, while you have a wife of …
And yet if on this ground you think you have a claim on Phormio’s property, because he once belonged to your father, Antimachus has a stronger claim than you have.
Consolatio ad Apollonium
The poet who, on losing his beloved wife Lyde, composed an elegy named for her cataloguing the misfortunes of great men in order to ease his own grief.
After this manner Antimachus the poet allayed his grief when he lost his wife Lyde, whom he tenderly loved;
Lysander
Poet of Colophon defeated at the Lysandreia poetic contest and consoled afterward by Plato.
And when Antimachus of Colophon and a certain Niceratus of Heracleia competed with one another at the Lysandreia in poems celebrating his achievements, he awarded the crown to Niceratus, and Antimachus, in vexation, suppressed his poem.
Romulus
Epic poet cited as the observer of the eclipse identified with the founding of Rome.
At the present time, indeed, there is no agreement between the Roman and Greek months, but they say that the day on which Romulus founded his city was precisely the thirtieth of the month, and that on that day there was a conjunction of the sun and moon, with an eclipse, which they think was the one seen by Antimachus, the epic poet of Teos, in the third year of the sixth Olympiad.
Timoleon
Poet of Colophon whose forced, laborious style is used as a comparison for generals whose success came only through toil.
For just as the poetry of Antimachus and the pictures of Dionysius, both Colophonians, for all their strength and vigour, seem forced and laboured, while the paintings of Nicomachus and the verses of Homer not only have power and grace besides, but also give the impression of having been executed readily and easily;