Theodo'ridas
(
*Qeodwri/das), of Syracuse, a lyric and epigrammatic poet, who is supposed to have lived at the same time as Euphorion, that is, about B. C. 235; for, on the one hand, Euphorion is mentioned ill one of the epigrams of Theodoridas (
Ep. ix.), and, on the other hand, Clemens Alexandrinus (
Strom. v. p. 673) quotes a verse of Euphorion
ἐν ταῖς πρὸς Θεωρίδαν ἀντιγραφαῖς, where Schneider suggests the emendation
Θεοδωρίδαν.
He had a place in the
Garland of Meleager.
In addition to the eighteen epigrams ascribed to him in the Greek Anthology, about the genuineness of some of which there are doubts (Brunck,
Anal. vol. ii. p. 41; Jacobs,
Anth. Graec. vol. ii. p. 42, vol. xiii. p. 959), he wrote a lyric poem
Εἰς Ἔρωτα, upon which a commentary was written by Dionysius, surnamed
ὁ Λεπτός (Ath. xi. p. 475f.), a dithyramb entitled
Κένταυροι (Ath. xv. p. 699; Eustath.
ad Odyss. p. 1571, 16), licentious verses of the kind called
φλύακες (Suid.
s.v. Σωτάδης, as corrected by Meineke,
Anal. Alex. p. 246), and some other poems, of which we have a few fragments, but not the titles.
The name is more than once confounded with
Θεόδωρος and
Θεοδώριτος. (Fabric.
Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 496; Bode,
Gesch. d. Hellen. Dichtkunst, vol. ii. pt. 2, p. 333; Ulrici, vol. ii. p. 613; Schmidt,
Diatribe in Dithyramb. pp. 147-150.)
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