Timotheos (English spelling)

Japanese: ティモテオス - てぃもておす（英語表記）Tīmotheos

A classical Greek lyric poet. Dates of birth and death unknown. Born in Miletus, Ionia, he was active from the end of the 5th century BCE to the first half of the 4th century BCE, and is said to have been friends with the tragic poet Euripides. His works were destroyed, but in 1902, the final part of his dithyrambic poem "The Persians," about 240 lines long, was discovered in an ancient papyrus scroll. This is a song-story in the form of a lyric poem that vividly depicts the Persian forces' disastrous defeat in the naval battle of Salamis, incorporating theatrical techniques, but no isomorphic rhythmic repetitions can be found.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

古典期ギリシアの抒情詩人。生没年不詳。イオニアのミレトスに生まれ，前5世紀末から前4世紀前半ころに活躍し，悲劇詩人エウリピデスとの親交が伝えられる。作品は隠滅したが，1902年古代パピルス文書巻より，彼のディテュランボス詩《ペルシア人》の結末部分約240行が発見された。これはサラミスの海戦で惨敗を喫したペルシア勢のありさまを，演劇的手法をまじえつつ活写した抒情詩形式の歌物語であるが，同形律格の反復対応は認められない。

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