Antimachus, of Colophon or Claros, Greek poet and grammarian, flourished about 400 BC. Colophon (Gr. ... Poets are authors of poems, or of other forms of poetry such as dramatic verse. ... Grammar is the discovery, enunciation, and study of rules governing the use of language. ... Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 450s BC 440s BC 430s BC 420s BC 410s BC - 400s BC - 390s BC 380s BC 370s BC 360s BC 350s BC Years: 405 BC 404 BC 403 BC 402 BC 401 BC - 400 BC - 399 BC 398 BC...

Scarcely anything is known of his life. His poetical efforts were not generally appreciated, although he received encouragement from his younger contemporary Plato (Plutarch, Lysander, 18). Statue of a philosopher, presumably Plato, in Delphi. ... Mestrius Plutarch (cz. ...

His chief works were: a long-winded epic Thebais, an account of the expedition of the Seven against Thebes and the war of the Epigoni; and an elegiac poem Lyde, so called from the poet's mistress, for whose death he endeavoured to find consolation by ransacking mythology for stories of unhappy love affairs (Plutarch, Consul, ad Apoll. 9; Athenaeus xiii. 597). The Oath of the Seven Chiefs, an 1897 illustration from Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred Church Seven Against Thebes is a play by Aeschylus concerning the battle between Eteocles and the army of Thebes and Polynices and his supporters, traditional Theban enemies. ... Epigoni are a group of figures in Greek mythology. ... It has been suggested that Myth be merged into this article or section. ... Athenaeus (ca. ...

Antimachus was the founder of "learned" epic poetry, and the forerunner of the Alexandrian school, whose critics allotted him the next place to Homer. He also prepared a critical recension of the Homeric poems. The epic is a broadly defined genre of poetry, which retells in a continuous narrative the life and works of a heroic or mythological person or group of persons. ... Bust of Homer in the British Museum For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ...

Fragments, ed. Stoll (1845); Bergk, Poetae Lyrici Gracci (1882); Kinkel, Fragmenta epicorum Graecorum (1877). 1845 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Theodor Bergk (1812-1881), German philologist, was born at Leipzig on May 22 1812. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Johann Gottfried Kinkel (August 11, 1815 - November 13, 1882) was a German poet. ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

20th century ed: V.J. Matthews, Antimachus of Colophon, text and commentary (Leiden : Brill, 1996) ISBN: 9004104682

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. (Redirected from 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica) The Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) in many ways represents the sum of knowledge at the beginning of the 20th century. ...