Sotades
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Sotades of Byzantium · that man · this man
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Stromata
Figure whose followers are cited on the attribution of a maxim to Bias.
Then next, the "All men are bad," or "Most men are bad" (for the same saying is uttered in two ways), the followers of Sotades of Byzantium say is Bias';
Orations
A citizen who was shipwrecked off Caphereus three years earlier and rescued by the huntsman; testifies in the assembly on the huntsman's behalf.
and I, recalling him, said, Hail, Sotades;
So we, at least, were saved chiefly by this man, after the gods.
But he said, Men, I long doubted, recognizing this man, yet I disbelieved.
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Classical author invoked as part of the lineage of Western writers on love.
This work may fairly be pronounced unique from the days of Sotades and Ovid to our time.