Simon of Athens
Simon of Athens | |
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Born | Simon |
Nationality | Athenian |
Known for | fragments on horsemanship |
Simon of Athens was an
Life
It is not known when Simon lived. However, it cannot have been much before 460 BC, as he is known to have criticised a work of the Athenian painter
According to Xenophon, Simon dedicated a bronze statue of a horse, on a plinth decorated with reliefs of his deeds, in the Eleusinion in the Agora of Athens.[1]: 4
Works
Simon's writings are quoted by Xenophon,
His works were believed otherwise lost until, in 1853, the French
Simon is mentioned three times in the Hippiatrica: there are two passing mentions of him as an authority like Xenophon, and an account of his criticism of Micon's painting.
References
- ^ ISBN 9780199277551.
- ^ Charles Anthon (1853). A Manual of Greek Literature from the Earliest Authentic Periods to the Close of Byzantine Era. New York: Harper & Brothers.
- ^ Pliny the Elder, Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff (editor) (1906). Naturalis Historia…, liber xxxiv (in Latin). Lipsiae: Teubner.
- ^ Morris Hicky Morgan (1893). The Art of Horsemanship ... Translated, with chapters on the Greek riding-horse and with notes. Boston: Little & Co. Cited in: Keith Stewart Thomson (1987). Marginalia: How to Sit on a Horse. American Scientist 75 (1): 69–71. (subscription required)
- ISBN 9782738120335.
- ^ Franz Ruehl (1910, 1912). Xenophontis Scripta Minora. Fasciculus prior, Oeconomicum, Convivium, Hieronem, Agesilaum, Apologiam Socratis continens. Post Ludovicum Dindorf edidit Th. Thalheim; Fasciculus posterior opuscula politica, equestria, venatica continens ... Edidit F. Ruehl. Accedunt Simonis De re equestri quae supersunt (2 volumes, in Latin and Ancient Greek). Leipzig: Teubner.
Further reading
- Antonio Sestili (2006). L'equitazione nella Grecia antica: i trattati equestri di Senofonte e i frammenti di Simone (in Italian). Scandicci (Firenze): Firenze Atheneum. ISBN 9788872552933.