Demodocus (crater)
Demodocus can be: * A character figuring in Homer's ''Odyssey'', see Demodocus (Odyssey character) * Demodocus (poet), a sixth century BC gnomic poet * A dialogue ascribed to Plato, see '' Demodocus (dialogue)'' * A swallowtail butterfly, ''Papilio demodocus ''Papilio demodocus'', the citrus swallowtail or Christmas butterfly, is a swallowtail butterfly which commonly occurs over the entirety of sub-Saharan Africa, including Madagascar, besides the southern Arabian Peninsula. The caterpillars fe ...

Demodocus (Odyssey Character)
In the ''Odyssey'' by Homer, Demodocus (; grc-gre, Δημόδoκος, ''Demodokos'') is a poet who often visits the court of Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians on the island of Scherie. During Odysseus' stay on Scherie, Demodocus performs three narrative songs. Description Demodocus first appears at a feast in the hall of Alcinous, after he approved that Odysseus should be provided with a ship for a safe passage home. During the feast Demodocus sings about the disagreement between Odysseus and Achilles at Troy. Everyone enjoys the singing except for Odysseus who bursts into tears because of the pain and suffering of which the song reminds him. Odysseus would raise his cup and pour libations to the gods every time there was a pause in the singing but when Demodocus began again Odysseus would pull his cloak over his head to hide his tears. Only Alcinous noticed Odysseus' weeping and stopped the feast and suggests that everyone go outdoors to participate in athletic contests. ...
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Demodocus (poet)
Demodocus (; grc-gre, Δημόδoκος, ''Demodokos'') of Leros was an ancient Greek poet who is believed to have lived during the sixth century BC. on the small island of Leros in the Aegean sea. He composed in elegiacs and iambs and appears to have specialized in gnomic poetry like his likely contemporary Phocylides. Little of his poetry survives, preserved in brief quotations by other authors, but it is possible that, like those of Phocylides, many of his gnomic utterances opened with the tag "And Demodocus says ...," as in the following assessment of Milesians: M.L. West, who characterizes this couplet and similar fragments dealing with Demodocus' contemporary Lerians as "brilliant", notes that the poet's use of the elegiac couplet in poetry with an "epigrammatic air" is indicative of the meter's suitability for composing the pithy verse that would later become a hallmark of the classical epigram An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising ...
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Demodocus (dialogue)
''Demodocus'' (; el, Δημόδοκος) is purported to be one of the dialogues of Plato. The dialogue is extant and was included in the Stephanus edition published in Geneva in 1578. It is now generally acknowledged to be a fabrication by a late sophist or rhetorician, probably later than mid-fourth century BC.John Madison Cooper, D. S. Hutchinson, (1997), ''Plato, Complete works'', page 1699. Hackett Publishing. It appears to be a combination of two separate works. The first part is a monologue (addressed to Demodocus), which argues against collective decision-making. There then follows a trilogy of dialogue Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a philosophical or didactic device, it is c ...s (with anonymous participants) which raise three elements of doubt against common sense. References External lin ...
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