Dioscorus, of Aphrodito

Διόσκορος, of Aphrodito

found: MacCoull, L.S.B. Dioscorus of Aphrodito, c1988:CIP galley (lawyer and poet; Copt) bk. jacket, etc. (6th cent. Christian Egyptian; wrote in Coptic and Greek; b. ca. 520; 585 last dated document)

found: Hellénisme dans l'Egypte du VIe siècle ... 1999:v. 1, t.p. (Dioscore d'Aphrodité)

found: Brill's new Pauly online, 4 March 2013(Dioscorus; Διόσκορος; Coptic advocate and poet from Aphrodito in Upper Egypt, ca AD 520-585; writings preserved in Coptic and Greek)

found: Dictionary of African Biography , accessed January 14, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Dioscorus of Aphrodito; poet, lawyer; born fl.0500 Kom Ishqaw, Egypt; commanded considerable economic and agricultural resources; asserted his right to autopragia or self-collection of required taxes; traveled to the imperial capital of Constantinople and pursued the affairs of his village; served as a property manager for his father's monastery (570s); also served as a private business manager for the affairs of a Roman count named Ammonios; occasionally was employed as a lawyer in the provincial capital Antinopolis; created several petitions and poems in his hand (late 560s); his poetry is new and creative fusion between native Egyptian and Greco-Roman cultures; died in Egypt)

notfound: Oxford classical dict., 1970;Ency. Brit., 1982;Collier ency., 1973;To archaion Hellēnikon pneuma;Megalē Hellēnikē enkykl.