Stesimbrotos of Thasos
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Stesimbrotos of Thasos
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Stesimbrotos of Thasos was a sophist, a rhapsode and logographer, a writer on history, and an opponent of Pericles and reputed author of a political pamphlet On Themistocles, Thucydides, and Pericles. Plutarch used writings by Stesimbrotos in his Life of Pericles, asserting that the coolness between Pericles and his son Xanthippus was due to Pericles seducing his daughter-in-law. Walter Burkert has suggested Stesimbrotos as the author of the Derveni papyrus. According to Plato's Ion, he was also
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5th-century BC Greek sophist and logographer
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2023-08-07T02:02:55Z
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