[♦]Theodămas, or Thiodamas, a king of Mysia, in Asia Minor. He was killed by Hercules, because he refused to treat him and his son with hospitality. Ovid, Ibis, li. 438.—Apollodorus, bk. 2, ch. 7.—Hyginus, fable 271.
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Theodectes, a Greek orator and poet of Phaselis in Pamphylia, son of Aristander, and disciple of Isocrates. He wrote 50 tragedies, besides other works now lost. He had such a happy memory that he could repeat with ease whatever verses were spoken in his presence. When Alexander passed through Phaselis, he crowned with garlands the statue which had been erected to the memory of the deceased poet. Cicero, Tusculanæ Disputationes, bk. 1, ch. 24; Orator, ch. 51, &c.—Plutarch.—Quintilian.
Theodonis, a town of Germany, now Thionville, on the Moselle.
Theodōra, a daughter-in-law of the emperor Maximian, who married Constantius.——A daughter of Constantine.——A woman who, from being a prostitute, became empress to Justinian, and distinguished herself by her intrigues and enterprises.——The name of Theodora is common to the empresses of the east in a later period.
Theodoretus, one of the Greek fathers who flourished A.D. 425, whose works have been edited, 5 vols., folio, Paris, 1642, and 5 vols., Halæ, 1769 to 1774.
Theodoritus, a Greek ecclesiastical historian, whose works have been best edited by Reading, folio, Cambridge. 1720.
Theodōrus, a Syracusan of great authority among his countrymen, who severely inveighed against the tyranny of Dionysius.——A philosopher, disciple to Aristippus. He denied the existence of a God. He was banished from Cyrene, and fled to Athens, where the friendship of Demetrius Phalereus saved him from the accusations which were carried to the Areopagus against him. Some suppose that he was at last condemned to death for his impiety, and that he drank poison.——A preceptor to one of the sons of Antony, whom he betrayed to Augustus.——A consul in the reign of Honorius. Claudian wrote a poem upon him, in which he praises him with great liberality.——A secretary of Valens. He conspired against the emperor and was beheaded.——A man who compiled a history of Rome. Of this, nothing but his history of the reigns of Constantine and Constantius is extant.——A comic actor.——A player on the flute in the age of Demetrius Poliorcetes, who contemptuously rejected the favours of Lamia the mistress of the monarch.——A Greek poet of Colophon, whose compositions are lost.——A sophist of Byzantium, called Logodaidalos by Plato.——A Greek poet in the age of Cleopatra. He wrote a book of metamorphoses, which Ovid imitated, as some suppose.——An artist of Samos about 700 years B.C. He was the first who found out the art of melting iron, with which he made statues.——A priest, father of Isocrates.——A Greek writer, called also Prodromus. The time in which he lived is unknown. There is a romance of his composition extant, called the amours of Rhodanthe and Dosicles, the only edition of which was by Gaulminus, 8vo, Paris, 1625.
Theodosia, now Caffa, a town in the Cimmerian Bosphorus. Mela, bk. 2, ch. 1.
Theodosiopŏlis, a town of Armenia, built by Theodosius, &c.