Antimachus

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[an-tim-uh-kuhs] / ænˈtɪm ə kəs /

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.

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Example Sentences

Then King Agamemnon took the two sons of Antimachus, Pisander and brave Hippolochus.

From The Iliad by Homer

Antimachus of Kolophon and one Nikeratus of Heraklea each wrote a poem on his deeds, and competed before him for a prize, at the Lysandreia.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey

He gave the crown of victory to Nikeratus, which so enraged Antimachus that he suppressed his poem.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey

Antimachus was the founder of “learned” epic poetry, and the forerunner of the Alexandrian school, whose critics allotted him the next place to Homer.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

And Antimachus the Colophonian mentions it in his Thebais, where he says— The hyca, or the horse-fish, or the one Which they do call the thrush.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us