Python of Byzantium
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Python
in the texts
On the Embassy
A man from Byzantium described as taking pride in his ability as a writer.
nor Python of Byzantium, a man who takes pride in his ability as a writer!
Stromata
Orator named in an example proposition illustrating syllogistic inference.
that the thing indicated is the disclosing of one thing, being itself one—as we say that being with child is an indication that one is no longer a virgin—while the thing taken by syllogism, being one, follows upon several—as, say, that Python betrayed the Byzantines, if so it chanced.
Letters
An envoy and orator from Byzantium who argued before the Athenian Assembly, alongside envoys from the Greeks, that Athens was acting unjustly, but was answered and defeated by Demosthenes.
The older men would know—and in all fairness you ought to inform the younger ones—of the hearing granted Python of Byzantium before the Assembly when he arrived with the envoys from the Greeks, expecting to show that the city was acting unjustly, but went away with the tables turned against him after I, alone of those who spoke on that occasion, had brought out the rights of the matter in your defence.