Demodocus
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
Poet cited for his verse about the Milesians.
just as Demodocus wrote of the people of Miletus — Milesians are no fools,’tis true But yet they act as fools would do.
Apology
Father of Paralus and Theages
Then here are others whose brothers joined in my conversations, Nicostratus, son of Theozotides and brother of Theodotus (now Theodotus is dead, so he could not stop him by entreaties), and Paralus, son of Demodocus;
History of the Peloponnesian War
Athenian commander of ships levying contributions near the Hellespont who helps recover Antandrus.
The same summer, when Antandrus was going to be strengthened by the Mytilenaeans, as they were planning [when we last mentioned them], Demodocus and Aristides, the commanders of the ships sent to levy contributions, being about the Hellespont, (for Lamachus, their third colleague, had sailed with ten ships into the Pontus,) became aware of the provisions made for the place, and thinking there was …