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-'''Sotades''' was an [[Ancient Greek]] [[poetry|poet]] who flourished in the [[third century BC]]. +'''Sotades''' was an [[Ancient Greek]] [[poetry|poet]] who flourished in the [[third century BC]], an inspiration to the 17th century ''[[Satyra sotadica]]''.
Sotades was born in [[Maronaea]], either the one in [[Thrace]], or in [[Crete]]. He was the chief representative of the writers of [[obscenity|obscene]] [[satire|satirical]] poems, called ''Kinaidoi'', composed in the Ionic dialect and in the "sotadic" metre named after him. He lived in [[Alexandria]] during the reign of [[Ptolemy II]] Philadelphus ([[285 BC]]-[[246 BC]]). For a violent attack on the king, on the occasion of his marriage to his own sister [[Arsinoe II of Egypt|Arsinoe]], Sotades was imprisoned. But he escaped to the island of [[Caunus (island)|Caunus]], where he was afterwards captured by Patroclus, Ptolemy's admiral, shut up in a leaden chest, and thrown into the sea (Athenaeus xiv. p. 620; Plutarch, De educatione puerorum, 14). Sotades was born in [[Maronaea]], either the one in [[Thrace]], or in [[Crete]]. He was the chief representative of the writers of [[obscenity|obscene]] [[satire|satirical]] poems, called ''Kinaidoi'', composed in the Ionic dialect and in the "sotadic" metre named after him. He lived in [[Alexandria]] during the reign of [[Ptolemy II]] Philadelphus ([[285 BC]]-[[246 BC]]). For a violent attack on the king, on the occasion of his marriage to his own sister [[Arsinoe II of Egypt|Arsinoe]], Sotades was imprisoned. But he escaped to the island of [[Caunus (island)|Caunus]], where he was afterwards captured by Patroclus, Ptolemy's admiral, shut up in a leaden chest, and thrown into the sea (Athenaeus xiv. p. 620; Plutarch, De educatione puerorum, 14).

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Sotades was an Ancient Greek poet who flourished in the third century BC, an inspiration to the 17th century Satyra sotadica.

Sotades was born in Maronaea, either the one in Thrace, or in Crete. He was the chief representative of the writers of obscene satirical poems, called Kinaidoi, composed in the Ionic dialect and in the "sotadic" metre named after him. He lived in Alexandria during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285 BC-246 BC). For a violent attack on the king, on the occasion of his marriage to his own sister Arsinoe, Sotades was imprisoned. But he escaped to the island of Caunus, where he was afterwards captured by Patroclus, Ptolemy's admiral, shut up in a leaden chest, and thrown into the sea (Athenaeus xiv. p. 620; Plutarch, De educatione puerorum, 14).

Only a few genuine fragments of Sotades have been preserved; those in Stobaeus are generally considered spurious. Ennius translated some poems of this kind, included in his book of satires under the name of Sola.

Sotades was also the author of some of the first recorded palindromes, and many credit him with the invention of that particular genre of composition.

Richard Francis Burton named the Sotadic zone, a supposed geographical belt where he hypothesized homosexuality was unusually prevalent, after Sotades.

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