Editing Demetrius I Poliorcetes (section)

=== Literary references ===

==== Plutarch ====
[[Plutarch]] wrote [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Demetrius*.html a biography of Demetrius], in which he is paired with [[Mark Antony]].

==== Hegel ====
[[File:Attack of Rhodes.jpg|thumb|The [[Siege of Rhodes (305-304 BC)]], led by Demetrius.]]
[[Hegel]], in the ''[[Lectures on the History of Philosophy]]'', says of another Demetrius, [[Demetrius Phalereus]], that "Demetrius Phalereus and others were thus soon after [Alexander] honoured and worshipped in Athens as God."<ref>Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, ''Lectures on the History of Philosophy'', volume 2, ''Plato and the Platonists'', p. 125, translated by E. S. Haldane and Frances H. Simson, Lincoln, Nebraska:  University of Nebraska Press, 1995.</ref>  What the exact source was for Hegel's claim is unclear.  Diogenes Laërtius in his short biography of Demetrius Phalereus does not mention this.<ref>[[Diogenes Laërtius]], [[Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers]], Book V.</ref> Apparently Hegel's error comes from a misreading of [[Plutarch]]'s ''[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Lives/Demetrius*.html Life of Demetrius]'' which is about Demetrius Poliorcetes and not Demetrius of Phalereus. Plutarch describes in the work how Demetrius Poliorcetes conquered Demetrius Phalereus at Athens.  Then, in chapter 12 of the work, Plutarch describes how Demetrius Poliorcetes was given honors due to the god [[Dionysus]]. This account by Plutarch was confusing not only for Hegel, but for others as well.<ref>Kenneth Scott, "The Deification of Demetrius Poliorcetes:  Part I", ''The American Journal of Philology'', 49:2 (1928), pp. 137–166.  See, in particular, p. 148.</ref>

==== Others ====
Plutarch's account of Demetrius's departure from Macedonia in 288 BC inspired [[Constantine Cavafy]] to write "King Demetrius" (ὁ βασιλεὺς Δημήτριος) in 1906, his earliest surviving poem on an historical theme.

Demetrius is the main character of the opera [http://wiki-score.org/doku.php?id=demetrio:index Demetrio a Rodi] (Turin, 1789) with libretto<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=H6OcHAAACAAJ Demetrio a Rodi: festa per musica da rappresentarsi nel Regio teatro di Torino per le nozze delle LL. AA. RR. Vittorio Emanuele], 48p. Published by Presso O. Derossi, 1789.</ref> by Giandomenico Boggio and Giuseppe Banti. The music is set by [[Gaetano Pugnani]] (1731-1798).

Demetrius appears (under the Greek form of his name, Demetrios) in [[L. Sprague de Camp]]'s historical novel,'' [[The Bronze God of Rhodes]]'', which largely concerns itself with his siege of Rhodes.

[[Alfred Duggan]]'s novel ''Elephants and Castles'' provides a lively fictionalised account of his life.