Theodectes
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
Tragedian, author of a version of the Philoctetes story.
indeed it is excusable if he succumbs after a struggle, like Philoctetes in Theodectes when bitten by the viper, or Kerkyon in the Alope of Karkinos, or as men who try to restrain their laughter explode in one great guffaw, as happened to Xenophantus.
Tusculan Disputations
Figure renowned for having had an extraordinary memory.
I do not ask how great a memory Simonides is said to have had, how great Theodectes, how great Cineas, who was sent as envoy by Pyrrhus to the senate, how great Charmadas lately, how great Metrodorus of Scepsis, who lived but recently, how great our own Hortensius: