Mentor
Mentor, an artist in embossed metals
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Mentoris Proper-name noun: masculine genitive singular of Mentor
- The famous friend of Odysseus, Cic. Att. 9, 8, 2. —
- II A celebrated artist in embossed work in metal, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 18, § 38; Plin. 33, 12, 53, § 147.—
- B Poet. transf., a Mentor-cup, a skilfully wrought drinking-vessel: rarae sine Mentore mensae, Juv. 8, 104: Mentora frangere, Mart. 11, 11, 5.— Hence, Mentŏrĕus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Mentor the artist, Mentorean: opus, Prop. 1, 14, 2: labores, Mart. 4, 39, 5.
(Μέντωρ).
1. A son of Eurystheus, fell, like his father and brothers, in a battle against the Heracleids and Athenians. (Diod. 4.57; Apollod. 2.8.1.)
2. A son of Heracles by Asopis. (Apollod. 2.7.8.)
3. A son of Alcimus and a friend of Odysseus, who, on quitting Ithaca, entrusted to him the care of his house. (Hom. Od. 2.226, &c., 22.235.) Athena assumed his appearance when she conducted Telemachus to Pylos. (Od. 2.269, 402, 3.13, &c., 4.654.) On Odysseus' return, Mentor assisted him in the contest with the suitors, and brought about a reconciliation between him and the people (22.206, 24.445, &c.).
4. The father of Imbrius, and son of Imbrus, at Pedaeus, was an ally of the Trojans. (Hom. Il. 13.171.) [L.S]
(Μέντωρ), a Greek of Rhodes, the brother of Memnon [Memnon]. With his brother Memnon lie rendered active assistance to Artabazus. When the latter found himself compelled to take refugte at the court of Philip, Mentor entered the service of Nectanabis, king of Egypt. He was appointed to the command of his Greek forces, and afterwards led a force of 4000 Greeks to the assistance of Tennes, king of Sidon, in his revolt against Dareius Ochus. Tennes treacherously betrayed the Sidonians [Tennes], and at his command Mentor, who had been left in charge of the city, directed his troops to open the gates to Dareius. Mentor with his troops was taken into the Persian service. When Dareius Ochus marched upon Egypt, one division of his Greek forces was placed under the command of Mentor and the eunuch Bagoas. When this division came before Bubastus, Mentor contrived that a report should reach the garrison, which consisted partly of Greeks, that all who surrendered would be pardoned. The Greek commanders on both sides were eager to be the first to make and to receive the submission; and Mentor contrived that Bagoas in entering the city should be taken prisoner by the Greeks. Having then himself received the surrender of the city, and procured the release of Bagoas, he secured the favour of Dareius and the gratitude of Bagoas, and was rewarded with a satrapy including all the western coast of Asia Minor. His influence with Dareius also enabled him to procure the pardon of his brother Memnon and of Artabazus. While engaged in the government of his satrapy he treacherously secured the person of Hermeias, tyrant of Atarneus, the friend of Aristotle [Hermeias; Aristoteles], and having forged letters in his name, obtained possession of his fortresses. Hie sent lermeias to Dareius, who put him to death. He died in possession of his satrapy, and was succeeded by his brother Memnon. His wife's name was Barsine. His three daughters fell into the hands of Parmenion at Damascus. One of them was subsequently married to Nearchus. (Diod. 16.42, &100.49-52; Arrian, 7.4.9; Curt. 3.13.14.) [C.P.M]
the most celebrated silver-chaser among the Greeks, must have flourished before B. C. 356, for Pliny states that his choicest works perished in the conflagration of the temple of Artemis at Ephesus (H. N. 35.12. s. 55). Others of them were burnt in the Capitol, and none were extant in Pliny's time (l. c.; comp. 7.38. s. 39). His works were vases and cups, the latter chiefly of the kind called Thericlea (see Ernesti, Clav. Cic., and Orelli, Onom. Tullian. s. v.). The statement of Pliny respecting the utter loss of his works must be understood of the large vases, and not of the smaller cups, many of which existed, and were most highly prized (Cic. Ver. 4.18; Martial, 3.41, 4.39, 8.50, 9.59, 14.91; Propert. 1.14. 2; Juv. 8.104). Some of them were, however, certainly spurious. (Plin. Nat. 33.11. s. 53.) Lucian (Lexiph. p. 332, ed. Wetstein) uses the phrase μεντορουργῆ ποτηρια to describe elaborately-wrought silver cups. [P.S]
- , Μέντωρ, an artist in embossed metals, C.—A Mentor, embossed cup, Iu.
(Μέντωρ). (1) Son of Alcimus of Ithaca, friend of Odysseus, who, on departing for Troy, confided to him the care of his house and the education of Telemachus (Odyss. ii. 225). His name has hence become a proverbial one for a wise and faithful adviser or monitor. Athené assumed his shape when she brought Telemachus to Pylus, and when she aided Odysseus in fighting the suitors and made peace between him and their relatives.
(2) The most celebrated master of the toreutic art among the ancients (Pliny , Pliny H. N. xxxiii. 154). As some of his works were destroyed at the burning of the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, in B.C. 356, obviously he lived before that event, and probably flourished in the best period of Greek art, though he is never mentioned by any earlier Greek writer than Lucian (Lexiphanes, 7). He worked mainly in silver. The orator Crassus paid 100,000 sesterces ($4000) for two cups chased by his hand, but, from regard to their value, refrained from using them. Varro possessed a statue wrought by him in bronze; and one Diodorus at Lilybaeum, two fine cups in the style of those adorned with figures of animals by Thericles, the Corinthian potter. Martial (iii. 41) mentions a cup with a lifelike representation of a lizard, and often refers to him (cf. Juv.viii. 104).
(3) A Rhodian Greek who with his brother Memnon served the Persian Artabazus and later King Nectanabis of Egypt. He aided Tennes, king of Sidon, against Darius Ochus, and, when Tennes went over to the Persians, entered the service of Darius, who made him satrap of the western part of Asia Minor (Arrian, Anab. vii. 419).
- Paus. 10.25.9
- killed in battle by the Athenians: Apollod. 2.7.8
- Apollod. 2.7.7