Antimachus

[an-tim-uh-kuhs]

noun

1. Also called the Colophonian. flourished c410 b.c., Greek poet.

2. (in theIliad ) a chieftain who believed that the Trojans should not return Helen to Menelaus.

Example Sentences

But scientists do know that Papilio antimachus is in decline due to habitat destruction and it is also poached by insect collectors, who seek it for its beautiful, orange and black wings.

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Hence doubtless the claim of Colophon to be the native city of Homer—a claim supported in the early times of Homeric learning by the Colophonian poet and grammarian Antimachus.

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The Thebaid of Antimachus, however, was not popular, and seems to have been a great storehouse of mythological learning rather than a poem of the Homeric school.

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To the Theban cycle belong: the Thebais or Expedition of Amphiaraus and the Epigoni of Antimachus.

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In imitation of Antimachus he wrote a work called Catachannae, probably a kind of miscellanea.

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