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Headword:
Ἰάμβλιχος
Adler number: iota,26
Translated headword: Iamblichus, Iamblichos
Vetting Status: low
Translation: This man, so they say, was born of slaves. He wrote the work called
Babyloniaca [
Babylonian Histories].[1] It is [about] the passion of Rhodanes and Sinonis, in 39 books.[2]
This man tells of Zobaras the eunuch, the lover of the most beautiful
Mesopotamia.
Ἰάμβλιχος: οὗτος, ὥς φασιν, ἀπὸ δούλων ἦν. ἔγραψε δὲ τὰ καλούμενα Βαβυλωνιακά: ἔστι δὲ Ῥοδάνου καὶ Σινωνίδος ἔρως ἐν βιβλίοις λθ#. οὗτος λέγει περὶ Ζωβαρᾶ τοῦ εὐνούχου, τοῦ ἐραστοῦ τῆς Μεσοποταμίας τῆς εὐειδεστάτης.
Notes:
[1] This novel survives only in the epitome of
Photius (Bibl. cod. 94) and a number of fragments scattered throughout the Suda.
[2] The surprisingly large number of books (39) must be a mistake.
Photius' epitome, which presumably was based on a complete text of the novel, indicates a more plausible number, 16 (Bibl. cod. 94 p. 78b.44).
OCD(3) pp.742-3, under "Iamblichus(1)".
Keywords: biography; gender and sexuality; historiography; women
Translated by: Akihiko Watanabe on 4 January 2000@20:07:57.
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