Antimachus

American  

[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

Dear to my heart be a friend's unbulky memorial ever; 10 Cherish an Antimachus, weighty as empty, the mob.

From The Poems and Fragments of Catullus by Ellis, Robinson

The precedent of Antimachus proved fatal to Statius.

From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth

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.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various

Yes, she was collecting material for a book on Antimachus of Colophon.

From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May

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