Stesimbrotos of Thasos

Stesimbrotos of Thasos (; c. 470 BC – c. 420 BC), doubtless raised at Thasos, was a sophist, a rhapsode and logographer, a writer on history, and an opponent of Pericles and reputed author of a political pamphlet On Themistocles, Thucydides, and Pericles. Plutarch used writings by Stesimbrotos in his Life of Pericles, asserting that the coolness between Pericles and his son Xanthippos was due to Pericles seducing his daughter-in-law. Walter Burkert has suggested Stesimbrotos as the author of the Derveni papyrus (Burkert 1987:44, 58 n.6).

Category:Sophists
Category:Ancient Greek epic poets
Category:Ancient Thasians
Category:Philosophers of ancient Macedonia
Category:Early Greek historians
Category:5th-century BC historians
Category:Metics in Classical Athens
Category:470s BC births
Category:420s BC deaths