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The Suda gives the titles of twenty tragedies, of which a very few fragments have been preserved: Aeolus, Allies ( Symmakhoi ), Andromeda, Chrysippus, Daughters of Aeolus, Daughters of Pelops, Elephenor, Herakles, Hippolytus, Kassandreis, Laius, Marathonians, Menedemus, Nauplius, Oedipus ( two versions ), Orphan ( Orphanos ), Pentheus, Suppliants ( Hiketai ), Telegonus, and the Wanderer ( Aletes ).
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Suda and gives
According to the Suda, it consisted of 39 books ; but Photios, who gives a tolerably full epitome of the work, mentions only 17.
The Suda gives him the nickname, ' critic grammarian ' and says that he lived in the time of the successors to Alexander.
The Byzantine Suda gives a brief description of Thrasymachus affirming his position as a rhetorical theorist.
The Suda gives a list of his works:
Suda and titles
According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.
According to the Suda he wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments including some 130 titles survive.
Nothing of his rhetorical works has survived except some of their titles ( in the Suda ).
The titles of eleven of his plays are given by the Suda, but none are extant today.
The Suda has preserved the titles of two, On Thebes ( Περὶ Θηβῶν ) and Tactics, in three books ( Τακτικά ); and Stobaeus makes a quotation from a work of Polyaenus, Ὑπὲρ τoῦ κoινoῦ τῶν Mακεδόνων ( For the koinon of Macedonians ), and from another entitled Ὑπὲρ τoῦ Συνεδρίoυ ( For the Synedrion ).
In May 2007, Suda announced during a speech at the 2007 Game Developers Conference that Grasshopper was at the time working on three titles for the Wii, two of which have now been released: No More Heroes and Fatal Frame IV.
Suda and twenty
Of twenty books named in the Suda, four are extant: on syntax, ed.
Suda and tragedies
It was commonly attributed to Homer, as by Aristotle ( Poetics 13. 92 ): " His Margites indeed provides an analogy: as are the Iliad and Odyssey to our tragedies, so is the Margites to our comedies "; but the work, among a mixed genre of works loosely labelled " Homerica " in Antiquity, was more reasonably attributed to Pigres, a Greek poet of Halicarnassus, in the massive medieval Greek encyclopedia called Suda.
Suda and which
In 1699, thanks to English mediation, the war ended with the peace of Karlowitz by which Venice retained possession of the 7 Ionian islands, Butrinto and Parga, the Morea, Spinalonga and Suda, Tenos, Santa Maura and Aegina and ceased to pay a tribute for Zante, but restored Lepanto to the Ottoman sultan.
Among ancient sources, the poet Simonides, another near-contemporary, says the campaign force numbered 200, 000 ; while a later writer, the Roman Cornelius Nepos estimates 200, 000 infantry and 10, 000 cavalry, of which only 100, 000 fought in the battle, while the rest were loaded into the fleet that was rounding Cape Sounion ; Plutarch and Pausanias both independently give 300, 000, as does the Suda dictionary.
He may have belonged to the Greek nobility of the Attica deme called the Eupatridae, with which the 10th-century Suda text records him as contemporaneous, prior to the period of the Seven Sages of Greece.
Information about Hippocrates can also be found in the writings of Aristotle, which date from the 4th century BC, in the Suda of the 10th century AD, and in the works of John Tzetzes, which date from the 12th century AD.
According to the Suda ( an 11th-century encyclopaedia of Byzantium which likely took its information from traditional accounts ), Herodotus learned the Ionian dialect as a boy living on the island of Samos, whither he had fled with his family from the oppressions of Lygdamis, tyrant of Halicarnassus and grandson of Artemisia I of Caria.
Herodotus's recitation at Olympia was a favourite theme among ancient writers and there is another interesting variation on the story to be found in the Suda, Photius and Tzetzes, in which a young Thucydides happened to be in the assembly with his father and burst into tears during the recital, whereupon Herodotus observed prophetically to the boy's father: " Thy son's soul yearns for knowledge.
The Suda lists the ancient canon of Greek bucolic poets as Theocritus, Moschus, and Bion, which should reflect chronogical order, and Moschus flourished in the mid 2nd century BC.
The information in the Suda in turn was derived directly or otherwise from the Chronicle of Eusebius of Caesarea, which quoted Berossus.
Porphyry and Iamblichus refer to a biography of Pythagoras by Apollonius, which has not survived ; it is also mentioned in the Suda.
The story was later retold and elaborated by Ausonius in The Masque of the Seven Sages, in the Suda ( entry " Μᾶλλον ὁ Φρύξ ," which adds Aesop and the Seven Sages of Greece ), and by Tolstoy in his short story Croesus and Fate.
" The Suda credits him also with inventing " the third note of the lyre " ( which is known to be wrong since the lyre had seven strings from the 7th century ), and four letters of the Greek alphabet.
She is best known for her critical, standard edition of the Suda, which she published in 5 volumes ( Leipzig, 1928 – 1938 ).
She seems to have embodied a blessed death ; the Suda connects her name to the figure of speech " be gone to blessedness ," instead of misery or damnation, which may be euphemistic, in the way that the dead are referred to as " the blessed ones.
According to the Suda, he heaped insults on Aristotle after his death, because Aristotle had designated Theophrastus as the next head of the Peripatetic school, a position which Aristoxenus himself had coveted having achieved great distinction as a pupil of Aristotle.
It is disputed, however, whether the words in the Suda (" of which this book is an epitome ") mean that Sudas compiler himself epitomized the work of Hesychius, or whether they are part of the title of an already epitomized Hesychius used in the compilation of the Suda.
The Suda assigns to another Pamphilus, simply described as " a philosopher ," a number of works, some of which were probably by Pamphilus the grammarian.
Damascius's biography of his teacher Isidore ( perhaps a part of the philosophos historia attributed to Damascius by the Suda ), of which Photius has preserved a considerable fragment.
According to Suda, both his " constitution " () and his " precepts " () were composed in elegiac couplets, but Pausanias also mentions " anapests ", a few lines of which, quoted by Dio Chrysostom and attributed to Tyrtaeus by a scholiast, could have belonged to the so-called " war songs " (), of which nothing else survives.
The Suda says only that he lived in the times of Marcus Aurelius, but the contempt with which he speaks of Commodus, who died in 192, shows that he survived that emperor.
Suda and very
Modern scholars generally turn to Herodotus's own writing for reliable information about his life, very carefully supplemented with other ancient yet much later sources, such as the Byzantine Suda:
The Suda is alone in claiming that Sappho was married to a " very wealthy man called Cercylas, who traded from Andros " and that he was Cleïs ' father.
Although the work is uncritical and probably much interpolated, and the value of its articles is very unequal, the Suda contains much useful information on ancient history and life.
Of the very numerous works of Favorinus, we possess only a few fragments, preserved by Aulus Gellius, Diogenes Laertius, Philostratus, and in the Suda, Pantodape Historia ( miscellaneous history ) and " Apomnemoneumata " ( memoirs, things remembered ).
The two Lives and the Suda name Apollonius ' father as Silleus or Illeus, but both names are very rare ( hapax legomenon ) and may derive from or " lampoon ", suggesting a comic source ( ancient biographers often accepted or misconstrued the testimony of comic poets ).
Suda and few
It is one of the few Suda 51 directed franchises commercially successful enough to earn a sequel.
Suda and fragments
Considerable fragments of two other works, On Providence and Divine Manifestations, are preserved in the early medieval encyclopedia, the Suda.
Of the five books of lyrical pieces mentioned in the Suda and by Athenaeus, only mere fragments collected from the citations of later writers now exist.
Damascius ' Life is preserved in summary form by Photius in his Bibliotheca, and in fragments in the Suda.
Considerable fragments of the work are preserved in the Excerpts of Constantine Porphyrogenitus and in the Suda.
According to the Suda, Aristarchus wrote 800 treatises () on various topics ; these are all lost but for fragments preserved in the various scholia.
Most of the information we have about Epicharmus comes from the writings of Athenaeus, Suda and Diogenes Laertius, but fragments and comments come up in a host of other ancient authors as well.
Of the five books of lyrical pieces by Anacreon which the Suda and Athenaeus mention as extant in their time, we have now but the merest fragments, collected from the citations of later writers.
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